ZyXEL Communications UAG5100 - 31.2 The Bandwidth Management Screen

Chapter 31 Bandwidth Management
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Maximize Bandwidth Usage Effect
With maximize bandwidth usage enabled, after each server gets its configured rate, the rest of the
available bandwidth is divided equally between the two. So server A gets its configured rate of 300
kbps and server B gets its configured rate of 200 kbps. Then the UAG divides the remaining
bandwidth (1000 - 500 = 500) equally between the two (500 / 2 = 250 kbps for each). The priority
has no effect on how much of the unused bandwidth each server gets.
So server A gets its configured rate of 300 kbps plus 250 kbps for a total of 550 kbps. Server B
gets its configured rate of 200 kbps plus 250 kbps for a total of 450 kbps.
Priority and Over Allotment of Bandwidth Effect
Server A has a configured rate that equals the total amount of available bandwidth and a higher
priority. You should regard extreme over allotment of traffic with different priorities (as shown here)
as a configuration error. Even though the UAG still attempts to let all traffic get through and not be
lost, regardless of its priority, server B gets almost no bandwidth with this configuration.
Finding Out More
•See DSCP Marking and Per-Hop Behavior on page 205 for a description of DSCP marking.
31.2 The Bandwidth Management Screen
The Bandwidth management screens control the bandwidth allocation for TCP and UDP traffic. You
can use source interface, destination interface, destination port, schedule, user, source, destination
information, DSCP code and service type as criteria to create a sequence of specific conditions,
similar to the sequence of security policies, to specify how the UAG handles the DSCP value and
allocate bandwidth for the matching packets.
Click Configuration > BWM to open the following screen. This screen allows you to enable/disable
bandwidth management and add, edit, and remove user-defined bandwidth management policies.
The default bandwidth management policy is the one with the priority of “default”. It is the last
policy the UAG checks if traffic does not match any other bandwidth management policies you have
configured. You cannot remove, activate, deactivate or move the default bandwidth management
policy.
Table 163 Maximize Bandwidth Usage Effect
POLICY CONFIGURED RATE MAX. B. U. PRIORITY ACTUAL RATE
A 300 kbps Yes 1 550 kbps
B 200 kbps Yes 2 450 kbps
Table 164 Priority and Over Allotment of Bandwidth Effect
POLICY CONFIGURED RATE MAX. B. U. PRIORITY ACTUAL RATE
A 1000 kbps Yes 1 999 kbps
B 1000 kbps Yes 2 1 kbps