Limit web category bandwidth

You learn how to create a traffic shaping policy that limits traffic for specific websites to a certain bandwidth and how to apply that policy.

Introduction

In this example, you apply bandwidth limits to a website: example.com.

To apply bandwidth limits to the website, do as follows:

• Create a traffic shaping policy.
• Add a custom web category.
• Edit the firewall rule that applies to the traffic you're applying bandwidth limits to.

Create a traffic shaping policy

To create a traffic shaping policy, do as follows:

1. Go to System services > Traffic shaping.

   

2. Click Add.

3. Specify the following example settings:

   Option	Description
   Name	Limit bandwidth for example.com
   Policy association	Web categories The decision for bandwidth distribution is based on the web category of the domain being visited.
   Rule type	Limit The website's traffic can't exceed the defined bandwidth limit.
   Limit upload/download separately	Disable
   Priority	1 This policy is important and should take precedence over other traffic shaping policies.
   Limit	10000
   Bandwidth usage type	Shared All traffic for the website won't exceed the limit of 10 MB in total.

   Here's an example:

   

4. Click Save.

Create a custom web category for the website

To create a custom web category, do as follows:

1. Go to Web > Categories.
2. Click Add.

3. Specify the following example settings:

   Option	Description
   Name	Limit example.com
   Classification	Productive
   Traffic shaping policy	Limit bandwidth for example.com
   Configure category	Local
   Domain/keyword	Domain: www.example.com Keyword: example

   Here's an example:

   

4. Click Save.

Edit an existing firewall rule

To edit an existing firewall rule, do as follows:

1. Go to Rules and policies > Firewall rules.
2. Click the firewall rule that currently matches the traffic you want to shape.
3. Go to the Security features section, and click Web filtering.

4. Click Apply web category-based traffic shaping.

   Here's an example:

   

5. Click Save.

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