User Guide
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Connection Limits enable you to define how many connections each user on your network
can open. This will cut down P2P, which tries to open 100's to 1000's of connections on
your network. By their very nature, Connection Limits will stop both encrypted and
unencrypted P2P traffic. We believe this mechanism to be superior to managing policy files
of known P2P traffic types (which will not help with encrypted P2P in any case). This is
described in more detail in
Setting Connection Limits
.
We also offer dynamic, fairness-based connection limiting, which we call
Smart Connection
Limits
. Smart Connection Limits work separately from Connection Limits, and can be used
in addition to them. With Smart Connection Limits, as a user's connections increase over a
defined number of allowable connections, limiting is enhanced to slowly starve the P2P
connections for bandwidth.
