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myrdin
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Guaranteed bandwidth - need some clarifications

Hi,

 

quick one:

 

- I have a 100Mbps pipe to the internet

- I create a rule to intercept traffic from 1 ip and give it 50Mbps of minimum guaranteed bandwidth

 

questions:

- what happened when that ip is not generating traffic (i.e. laptop is off)? Is the firewall giving the rest of the network 100Mbps or 50Mbps?

 

thanks

 

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gschmitt
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Yes, there is a whole document clearifing how traffic shaping works

 

Basically there is a queue. If <IP with guaranteed bandwidth> is using below 50Mbps (in your case) it's traffic gets put lowest in the queue.

That way if <IP w/ guaranteed bandwidth> isn't using the bandwidth it gets distributed normally

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gschmitt
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Yes, there is a whole document clearifing how traffic shaping works

 

Basically there is a queue. If <IP with guaranteed bandwidth> is using below 50Mbps (in your case) it's traffic gets put lowest in the queue.

That way if <IP w/ guaranteed bandwidth> isn't using the bandwidth it gets distributed normally

myrdin

thanks heaps

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