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NimbostratusLimit Bandwidth on Social Media
Is there an Irule out ther that will allow me to rate limit specific traffic.
Ex: My HR department wants me to allow Social media Face Book, Twitter, My Space, LinkedIn.
I want to prevent the video content from these networks from bringing the network to it's knees.
I also want to police what type of video's...etc.
Can I use my LTM to rate limit embedded video on Facebook? or Click through's from FB to You Tube? Can I use APM to identify and police video content (ex: deny adult content video only).
3 Replies
- boneyard
MVP
it might be possible with lots of effort, and even then it will be tricky, but i believe you would better look at another tool to accomplish this.
in the past i would say you need another vendor, but it seems F5 is moving into the web gateway realm also. reach out to the local F5 SE and ask what they can do.
Rate limiting is definitely the easier portion of this. Not easy, per se, but easier for sure. Rate limiting any and all traffic from a few set of well defined domains (facebook, et al) is doable. Determining what is "good" content vs "bad" content, especially in video is much, much harder.
RoyBadRate limiting is the way we'd do it - Dynamic Bandwidth classes seem a really good idea IF F5 ever produce decent stats and usage information for it. I mean seriously: why deploy a feature with virtually no information in the manuals and then no statistics! With Rate shaping (or Bandwidth classes if you're brave), you can mark the outgoing traffic for HighQOS, lowQOS, etc with DSCP or a header or whatever takes your fancy , and then rate shaping via a quick and easy iRule should be able to pick up the response also.
