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| Description | This article describes behavior where users are constantly sending virtual machine backups but the traffic interrupts the OSPF routing process. | 
| Scope | FortiGate OSPF Routing. | 
| Solution | Users are constantly sending virtual machine backups in ISP networks. 
 This traffic consumes almost all of the bandwidth available. When the backups are being sent, FortiGate stops correctly sending all of the OSPF networks. 
 Workaround: 
 OSPF traffic works over the port 89 in IP. In FortiGate there is already an object define for this service: 
 config firewall service custom end 
 Configure a traffic shaper to prioritize OSPF traffic: 
 config firewall shaper traffic-shaper 
 Configure a traffic shaper policy using the OSPF traffic shaper to prioritize an OSPF service: 
 config firewall shaping-policy | 
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