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Chapter 32 Application Patrol
ZyWALL USG 1000 User’s Guide
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Bandwidth Management Priority
• The ZyWALL gives bandwidth to higher-priority traffic first, until it reaches its
configured bandwidth rate.
• Then lower-priority traffic gets bandwidth.
• The ZyWALL uses a fairness-based (round-robin) scheduler to divide bandwidth
among traffic flows with the same priority.
• The ZyWALL automatically treats traffic with bandwidth management disabled
as priority 7 (the lowest priority).
Maximize Bandwidth Usage
Maximize bandwidth usage allows applications with maximize bandwidth usage
enabled to “borrow” any unused bandwidth on the out-going interface.
After each application gets its configured bandwidth rate, the ZyWALL uses the
fairness- based scheduler to divide any unused bandwidth on the out-going
interface amongst applications that need more bandwidth and have maximize
bandwidth usage enabled.
Unused bandwidth is divided equally. Higher priority traffic does not get a larger
portion of the unused bandwidth.
Bandwidth Management Behavior
The following sections show how bandwidth management behaves with various
settings. For example, you configure DMZ to WAN policies for FTP servers A and
B. Each server tries to send 1000 kbps, but the WAN is set to a maximum
outgoing speed of 1000 kbps. You configure policy A for server A’s traffic and
policy B for server B’s traffic.
Figure 384 Bandwidth Management Behavior
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BWM
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