Chapter 22 Bandwidth Management
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22.5.1 Rule Configuration: Application Rule Configuration
If you want to edit a bandwidth management rule for a pre-defined service or application, click the
Edit icon in the Application List table of the Advanced screen. The following screen displays.
Figure 114 Bandwidth Management Rule Configuration: Application List
# This is the number of an individual bandwidth management rule.
Priority Select a priority from the drop down list box. Choose High, Mid or Low.
• High - Select this for voice traffic or video that is especially sensitive to jitter (jitter is
the variations in delay).
• Mid - Select this for "excellent effort" or better than best effort and would include
important business traffic that can tolerate some delay.
• Low - Select this for non-critical "background" traffic such as bulk transfers that are
allowed but that should not affect other applications and users.
Category This is the category where a service belongs.
Service This is the name of the service.
Select the check box to have the Router apply this bandwidth management rule.
Advanced
Setting
Click the Edit icon to open the Rule Configuration screen where you can modify the rule.
User-defined
Service
Use this table to allocate specific amounts of bandwidth to specific applications or services
you specify.
# This is the number of an individual bandwidth management rule.
Enable Select this check box to have the Router apply this bandwidth management rule.
Direction Select LAN to apply bandwidth management to traffic from WAN to LAN.
Select WAN to apply bandwidth management to traffic from LAN/WLAN to WAN.
Select WLAN to apply bandwidth management to traffic from WAN to WLAN.
Service Name Enter a descriptive name for the bandwidth management rule.
Category This is the category where a service belongs.
Modify Click the Edit icon to open the Rule Configuration screen. Modify an existing rule or
create a new rule in the Rule Configuration screen. See Section 22.5.2 on page 165 for
more information.
Click the Remove icon to delete a rule.
Apply Click Apply to save your customized settings.
Reset Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.
Table 73 Management > Bandwidth Management > Advanced (continued)
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