Traffic Shaping

Question

Hello, 
 i have a problem with a traffic shapring policy. I would like to limnit the user for internet traffic So i created a rule 
 for LAN to WAN and placed a places the lightly limited policy as traffic shaping. 
 The traffic in dection to the LAN will be shaped but the traffic that goes from LAN to WAN is not be shaped. How can 
 i manage that the shaping is working in both directions or is cause of the statefull firewall the incomming traffic not 
 checked against thte rule ? 
 
 BR 
 Marco

Michael Dunn · Accepted Answer

This may be related to how the XG enforces the limit and where the measurement is taking place. 
 
 Website ^ | Not enforced. XG will download the file at full speed. v 
 XG 
 ^ | Enforced. XG will deliver the file to the client at restricted speed. v 
 Client 
 
 Just dealing with downloads as a example here. When you put in a limit, the limit is not enforced at the XG to Website level. Therefore from the perspective of the website, the download happens fast. But the delivery to the file to the client is at the limited speed. The perspective of the client, the download is limited. 
 
 Let me give a more full example. Lets say you have a WAN speed of 10MB/s, you are limiting the download speed to 1MB/s. 
 User clicks on a 20MB file. 
 XG downloads the 20MB at 10MB/s, taking 2 seconds. 
 XG virus scans the files. 
 XG sends the file to the client at 1MB/s, taking 20 seconds. 
 
 If you ask the website, it took 2 seconds to download the file. If you ask the client, it took 22 seconds to download the file.