FTP shaper
The FTP shaper sets the maximum bandwidth to use to avoid sudden spikes by sudden uploading or downloading of large files, and interfering with other more important traffic.
To create a FTP shaper - web-based manager
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Traffic Shapers and Create New.
2. Set the Type to Shared.
3. Enter the Name ftp.
4. Set Apply Shaper to All Policies using this shaper.
5. Set the Traffic Priority to Low.
6. Select Maximum Bandwidth and enter 200 Kb/s
7. Select Guaranteed Bandwidth and enter 200 Kb/s.
8. Select OK.
To create a FTP shaper - CLI
config firewall shaper traffic-shaper
edit ftp
set maximum-bandwidth 200
set guaranteed-bandwidth 200
set priority low
end
For this shaper, the maximum and guaranteed bandwidth are set low and to the same value. In this case, the bandwidth is restricted to a specific amount. Setting the traffic priority low ensures that more important traffic will be able to pass before FTP traffic.
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