User Guide
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Factory delivered, NetEqualizer defaults are set to perform congestion control on your trunk
when it becomes 85 percent full. In most cases, important business applications, such as
VoIP, citrix, blackboards, web browsing, and e-mail will receive preferential treatment, and
therefore there is no need to assign priority. In general, we find that only video servers
require priority treatment.
From the Setup and Configuration
Menu,
Click on ->
Manage Priority
->
[
Manage Traffic with Priority over
Equalizing
].
Priority Traffic allows you to select a
specific IP address for priority
treatment. Once set, this IP address,
and any connection it is part of, will
receive priority.
In
Software Update 5.8
, we expanded
our Priority Traffic feature to enable you
to prioritize an entire IP subnet. This
feature is useful if you need to prioritize
a section of your network, for example,
a subnet where your video-streaming servers are hosted.
If you use this feature to prioritize an IP or entire subnet and are concerned with these
priorities using too much bandwidth, we also recommend using
Hard Limits
to add a hard
limit for the IP or subnet, so that it does not take an unlimited amount of bandwidth.
Note: Use Priority Traffic sparingly. The most common mistake for new installations is to
try to give priority to all important business applications. This is rarely actually needed, as
most business applications will already be getting preferential treatment from
Equalizing
.
Masking Off Traffic
(
back
)
The masking features on NetEqualizer are intended to exclude Local Traffic
crossing the NetEqualizer link from being considered for any shaping decisions.
Masked traffic is “invisible” to the NetEqualizer. If you are utilizing the
NetEqualizer to shape Internet Traffic going across your link, you should use the MASK
feature to exclude Local Traffic (i.e. a computer talking to a server on your network).
Masking should not be used to prioritize traffic.
Priority Traffic
should be used to prioritize
traffic, such as important video streams. Do not use the MASK feature.
There are two types of masking, “paired” and “absolute.” A host or subnet assigned as a
“paired” mask will only be ignored if it is talking to another host or subnet that is also
registered as a paired mask. By design, a
Paired Mask
will cause NetEqualizer to ignore
hosts talking to other paired mask hosts, while at the same time subject the same hosts to
NetEqualizer's bandwidth shaping rules if they make a connection with a server on the
Internet.
