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QoS traffic shaping
System Administrator’s Guide 37
QoS traffic shaping
Traffic shaping provides a level of control over the relative performance of various
types of IP traffic. The traffic shaping feature of your Shiva VPN Gateway allows you
to allocate High, Medium, or Low priority to the following services: domain (tcp),
domain (udp), ftp, ftp-data, http, https, imap, irc, nntp, ntp, pop3, smtp, ssh, and telnet.
This advanced feature is provided for expert users to fine tune their networks. The
Auto Traffic Shaper uses a set of inbuilt traffic shaping rules to attempt to ensure low
latency on interactive connections, while maintaining fast throughput on bulk
transfers. The Upstream and Downstream Speed should. If you have a PPTP or
PPPoE connection to the Internet, enter approximately 80 - 90% of the speed that the
ISP supplied to account for protocol overheads.
The following option are supported: