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Matt_H_58911's avatar
Matt_H_58911
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Feb 17, 2009

Bandwidth throttling by pool

I was wondering if its possible to throttle bandwidth using an iRule for a pool.

 

 

My example would be if I had an ftp pool and I wanted to limit the amount of bandwidth per connection to 100kbits per second.

 

 

Is this possible?
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3 Replies

  • hwidjaja_37598's avatar
    hwidjaja_37598
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    Feb 17, 2009
    I think you can use rateclass:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/rateclass.html

     

     

  • Matt_H_58911's avatar
    Matt_H_58911
    Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
    Feb 17, 2009
    I have looked into rate shaping and the rate class really will not do what I need. I need to set hard limits per session. The rate class seems to set thresholds to drop and or queue.
  • Michael_Koyfma1's avatar
    Michael_Koyfma1
    Icon for Cirrus rankCirrus
    Feb 17, 2009
    If you want to setup bandwidth limits per session, just use iRules to assign a rateclass to each connection. Here is a good example:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/ControllingBots.html