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Chapter 20 Bandwidth Management
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20.12 Configuring Class Setup
The Class Setup screen displays the configured bandwidth classes by individual interface.
Select an interface and click the buttons to perform the actions described next. Click “+” to
expand the class tree or click “-“ to collapse the class tree. Each interface has a permanent root
class. The bandwidth budget of the root class is equal to the speed you configured on the
interface (see Section 20.11 on page 417 to configure the speed of the interface). Configure
sub-class layers for the root class.
To add or delete child classes on an interface, click ADVANCED > BW MGMT > Class
Setup. The screen is shown here with example classes.
Figure 259 ADVANCED > BW MGMT > Class Setup
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 132 ADVANCED > BW MGMT > Class Setup
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Interface Select an interface for which you want to set up bandwidth management classes.
Bandwidth management controls outgoing traffic on an interface, not incoming. So,
in order to limit the download bandwidth of the LAN users, set the bandwidth
management class on the LAN. In order to limit the upload bandwidth, set the
bandwidth management class on the corresponding WAN interface.
Bandwidth
Management
This field displays whether bandwidth management on the interface you selected in
the field above is enabled (Active) or not (Inactive).
After you select an interface, the bandwidth management classes configured for the
interface display. The name, bandwidth and priority display for each class. “borrow”
also displays if the class is set to use bandwidth from its parent class if the parent
class is not using up its bandwidth budget.
Add Sub-Class Click Add Sub-class to add a sub-class.
Edit Click Edit to configure the selected class. You cannot edit the root class.
Delete Click Delete to delete the class and all its sub-classes. You cannot delete the root
class.
Statistics Click Statistics to display the status of the selected class.