Hi all,
We have a pair of SG450 UTM Appliances (Firmware version 9.405-5) running in Hot Standby Mode.
Is it wise, when creating a Bandwidth Pool to assign a relatively low amount of bandwidth to be reserved for a specific Traffic Selector and use the Upper Bandwidth Limit to control the total bandwidth consumed by the specified Traffic Selector?
I'm only asking because I'm a bit confused about whether or not the reserved bandwidth is usable by any other application when it has been reserved in a Bandwidth Pool.
For example, I have created a Traffic Selector containing several streaming media applications I wish to control (all other streaming media applications are blocked). I then created a Bandwidth Pool, based on the Streaming Media Traffic Selector which reserved 4096 kbit/s bandwidth with an upper limit of 10240 kbit/s bandwidth. Finally I created a Download Throttling rule to limit each source address to 256 Kbit/s. Overall (and I may be wrong in this), my hope was to limit streaming media applications to 10240 kbit/s and to limit each source address on my internal network to 256 kbit/s.
But I'm still concerned by the initially reserved bandwidth of 4096 kbit/s. Am I effectively removing this from my overall available bandwidth and would it be better to reserve a lower amount and let the upper limit ensure that streaming media doesn't consume my entire Internet connection?
Many thanks (and apologies if the question is badly worded),
John P
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