Quick Start Appendix
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Number of Connections
You can monitor connections using the following command. In this example, we are looking at users with > 10
connections. You can change this value.
Click on ->
Maintenance
->
[
Run a Command
]
and then
type in:
/art/count 10.
This will display all IPs with greater than 10 connections.
NetEqualizer Log
From the Dashboard,
Click on ->
[
View the Log
]
. The following screen comes up.
Here you can see what connections are being made
and if anything is currently being given a Penalty
(slowed down).
Penalties can be reduced (PENALTY DECREASE)
and increased (INCREASE PENALTY). You might
also see "PENALTY" when a penalty is first being
applied or "PENALTY REMOVE", as in this example
at the right, when it is being taken off.
If you are under RATIO on your network, you will not see penalties being applied.
Appendix #2: Troubleshooting your Setup
Below is a brief troubleshooting guide.
Troubleshooting Guide
If you do not see enough
traffic flowing through your
network…
Make sure Bandwidth Up (TRUNK_UP=Outbound) and Bandwidth Down
(TRUNK_DOWN=Inbound) are set correctly for your bandwidth, and are in bytes per second. See
Key Equalizing Parameters Table
.
If you want to shape less
strictly (let larger types of
traffic through)…
Check that Hog Minimum (HOGMIN) is set to at least 12000 if you want applications like VoIP,
email, web surfing, and chat to flow freely. You can increase the size of HOGMIN, based on
your network pipe size. See
Key Equalizing Parameters Table
for recommended settings.
If you have a lot of users
and a very busy network
…
Make sure that your Connection Tracking Table Size (BRAIN_SIZE) is set correctly, based on
the size of your network. Depending on how many users you have and their activity, you may
need to increase this. See
Additional Equalizing Parameters Table
for recommended settings.
If you think that shaping is
too severe or too lenient…
If you feel you're penalizing too harshly then reduce your Penalty Unit (PENALTY_UNIT). The
faster the trunk the less radical the PENALTY should be and PENALTY_UNIT will adjust that.
For example, 10 would delay all packets by 1/10 of a second when a penalty is in effect.
Recommendations in
Additional Equalizing Parameters
.
If you have local traffic
going through the
NetEqualizer...
If you have traffic that is purely local (not going to or from the Internet) that you do not want
shaped, you can use MASKING. Masked traffic will not be shaped (see
User Guide
).
If you are seeing issues
with your web servers or
DNS servers
…
Set Individual Connection Limits for special servers like DNS or Web Servers if they are part of
a subnet that is being connection limited. Set to a high value, such as 3000.
If you are seeing "Key
Violations" messages on
the Main Screen…
Key violations occur when you go over your total bandwidth throughput licensed on the
NetEqualizer. For example, if you have a 50Mbps license, you are allowed to pass up to
50Mbps in and 50Mbps out. If your NetEqualizer is connected to a switch or router or firewall at
more than 50Mbps (such as 100Mbps or 1Gbps connection), it is possible for some local
machine on one side to try talking to another one of your local machines on the other side at this
higher speed. In order to stay within your license, you have several options:
1) (preferred) you can MASK this local traffic (see
User Guide
"Masking Off Traffic") or
2) you can lock down your NetEqualizer ports (see
User Guide
Appendix #2).
