Regular traffic shaper
The regular shaper sets the maximum bandwidth and guaranteed bandwidth for everyday business traffic such as web and email traffic.
To create a regular shaper - web-based manager
1. Go to Firewall Objects > Traffic Shaping > Shared.
2. Enter the Name daily_traffic.
3. Select Per Policy.
4. Enter the Maximum Bandwidth of 600 Kb/s
5. Enter the Guaranteed Bandwidth of 600 Kb/s.
6. Select a Traffic Priority of Medium.
7. Select OK.
To create a regular shaper - CLI
config firewall shaper traffic-shaper
edit daily_traffic
set maximum-bandwidth 600
set guaranteed-bandwidth 600
set per-policy enable
set priority medium
end
For this shaper, the maximum and guaranteed bandwidth are set to a moderate value of 600 Kb/s. It is also set for per policy, which ensures each security policy for day-to-day business traffic has the same distribution of bandwidth.
See also