Traffic shaping

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Traffic shaping or QoS (Quality of Service) means managing the available bandwidth and prioritize some traffic. Using this functionality allows to ensure the needed bandwidth for some realtime services like Voice over IP or terminal server protocols. Services that are not realtime relevant can be placed back.

 

Possibilities of traffic shaping:

 

Prioritizing single services
Ensure a minimum bandwidth for single services
Split the available bandwidth to several hosts.
Prioritizing several networks.

 

Since version 2.5 it is also possible to manage incoming traffic. You can select at each network interface if you want to manage "incoming" or "outgoing" traffic. In order to ensure a optimal bandwidth usage you should not allow more than 95 % of the totally available bandwidth as minimum.

 

For further information please have a look at the practical examples about traffic shaping here.