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bobbyh_147292
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Mar 12, 2014

Limit 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...
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RoyBad
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Oct 14, 2014

Rate 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.