Restrictions

As part of configuring bandwidth control, you are required to define what restriction will placed on particular types of traffic as it passes through WinGate.

Using the Restrictions configuration on the Bandwidth Control tab, you can create a range of different bandwidth restrictions to meet your requirements. Restrictions can be made to restrict traffic to either a percentage of available bandwidth, or to a certain quantity of traffic.

Once created, each restriction will be available to be used by any rules you define on the Rules screen of the Bandwidth Control tab. You can create rules to define what type of traffic a restriction will be imposed on.

To create a restriction:

1. On the Restrictions configuration click Add to add a new restriction. This will bring up the Restriction properties.

   

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   Name

   Enter a name for the restriction. This helps to identify it for selection when creating rules.

   Priority Group

   The Priority group setting has several important uses:

   1. It sets the processing priority that this particular restriction will have in relation to other bandwidth restrictions that maybe being processed by WinGate at the same time. When a restriction belongs to certain priority group, it is subjected to the Priority Level setting found on the Scheduling configuration of the Bandwidth Control tab.

   2. When traffic matches more then one rule, WinGate can select which rule to use based on the Priority group that a restriction belongs to. This is determined by setting the Rule selection method option on the Scheduling configuration of the Bandwidth Control tab to either Preferring Maximum priority or Preferring Minimum priority options.
   3. When configuring the actual type of restriction that will be implemented, you can simply choose to prioritize traffic according to its Priority Group (See below).

2. Restriction

   This is the actual bandwidth restriction which can be:

   • Percentage of available

     Percentage of available bandwidth.

   • Kilobits

     Restrict by actual Kilobits.

   • Unrestricted

     This will only prioritize traffic according to the Priority group level assigned to the restriction.

3. Click OK to finish configuring the restriction. It will be now listed on the Restrictions screen.

Once created, the restriction can be selected for any traffic rules that you may configure. Whenever traffic matches the criteria set in the rule, then the chosen bandwidth restriction will be implemented.