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one (1) email containing all 25 violations. For the above example,
would only get one (1) email each hour, even if multiple IPs in the range had quota
violations.
How Hard Limits Interact with Quota
Hard Limits are used to set a fixed RATE of individual bandwidth to a single IP address or a
subnet. If you set a Hard Limit for a subnet, the bandwidth assigned is not shared. For
example, if you set up a 2Mbps up/1Mbps down for a subnet with four different IP
addresses, each of the IP addresses will get 2Mbps/1Mbps to use.
Quotas are used to limit the AMOUNT of data that a single IP address or IPs within a subnet
can use over a period of time.
Here is how they work together: If you have both a Hard Limit and a Quota Rule set for a IP
address, if the Quota Amount is reached, the Quota System Hard Limit Restriction will kick
in, replacing the Hard Limit set for the IP address. This can be used to ramp down your
Hard Limit when too much bandwidth is being consumed.
For example, if you had a Hard Limit for 10.99.100.01/24 of 5Mbps, each IP in the subnet
would be limited to this rate of bandwidth consumption. If an IP in the subnet exceeded the
1 gigabyte Quota Amount during the week, the IP would now be limited to 1Mbps, instead
of the 5Mbps. Other IPs in the subnet that had not exceeded quota would still get 5Mbps.
Note: If you wish to have BOTH Hard Limits and Quota Rules in place, the Hard Limits must
be specified at the subnet level (for a range of IPs). At this time you cannot set a Hard
Limit for an individual IP (/32) with an individual or subnetted Quota Rule.
Quota and Hard Limits: Definition Rules
Allowed?
NO
NO
YES
YES
Hard Limit
IP
IP
subnet
subnet
Quota
subnet
IP
IP
subnet
For Example:
111 means not allowed
Hard Limit
10.99.100.02/32 10.99.100.02/32 10.99.100.01/24 10.99.100.01/24
Quota
10.99.100.01/24 10.99.100.02/32
10.99.100.02/32 10.99.100.01/24
Removing Quota Rules
If you no longer wish to have a quota
on a particular IP address of IP subnet,
you can remove the Quota Rule.
From the Management and Reporting
Menu,
Click on ->
Manage User
Quotas
->
[
Configure User Quotas
]
.
Scroll down to see the three (3)
windows shown at right.
In the Remove Quota Rule window,
select the rule that you would like to
remove from the dropdown box, in our
example that would be
10.99.100.01/24
, and
Click on
-> [
Remove Rule
]
.
