| Traffic Shaping is becoming more and more | | | | Port mirroring allows you to setup a port in the |
| common in the business market. Most companies | | | | switch to receive packets of other ports. |
| with remote offices are now connected via a | | | | Let's take "WFilter Enterprise" as an example: |
| WAN. Applications tend to become centrally | | | | First, setup a mirroring port for monitoring. |
| hosted at the head office and remote offices are | | | | Upon proper port mirroring, WFilter will be able to |
| expected to pull data from central databases and | | | | monitor all computers internet activities. |
| server farms. As applications become more | | | | |
| hungry in bandwidth and prices of dedicated | | | | Bandwidth Usage Management Settings |
| circuits being relatively high in most areas of the | | | | Using WFilter's bandwidth usage management |
| world, instead of increasing the size of their WAN | | | | feature, you can set a maximum accumulating |
| circuits, companies feel the need to properly | | | | bandwidth usage of each computer for a period |
| manage their circuits to make sure | | | | time. In this example, each user can have 200M |
| business-oriented traffic gets priority over | | | | internet bandwidth every day. Only messengers |
| best-effort traffic. Traffic shaping is thus a good | | | | and emails are allowed when the bandwidth limit is |
| means for companies to avoid purchasing | | | | reached. |
| additional bandwidth while properly managing these | | | | |
| resources. | | | | You also can setup a policy to block certain users |
| With a linux gateway, you have a rich set of tools | | | | when available internet bandwidth of the entire |
| for managing and manipulating the bandwidth | | | | network is not enough. For example, When entire |
| usage. More details can be found at: | | | | network traffic exceeds 80% of available internet |
| However, sometimes it might be difficult for you | | | | bandwidth, p2p traffic will be blocked. |
| to deploy a linux gateway server. | | | | |
| This tutorial will guide to implement a passby | | | | Bandwidth Usage Alert Settings |
| internet bandwidth usage management solution, | | | | And the bandwidth alert feature will send you an |
| which enables you to manage internet bandwidth | | | | alert email when the accumulating bandwidth |
| usage through a mirroring port on your switch. | | | | usage of a computer is too large. |