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SonicOS 5.8.1 Administrator Guide
When the Bandwidth Management Type is set to WAN as in Figure 49:10, the Add/Edit Action
Object screen provides Per Action or Per Policy Bandwidth Aggregation Method options and
you can specify values for Guaranteed Bandwidth, Maximum Bandwidth, and Bandwidth
Priority.
Figure 49:10 Bandwidth Management Type WAN on Firewall Settings > BWM
Figure 49:11 shows the Bandwidth Priority selections in the Add/Edit Action Objects screen
when the global Bandwidth Management Type is set to WAN on the Firewall Settings > BWM
page.
In this case, when configuring a Bandwidth Management action, you can select either Per
Action or Per Policy, as shown in Figure 49:11. Per Policy means that when you create a limit
of 10 Mbps in an Action Object, and three different policies use the Action Object, then each
policy can consume up to 10 Mbps of bandwidth. Per Action means that the three policies
combined can only use 10 Mbps.
Figure 49:11 Per Action or Per Policy Bandwidth Management
When using Per Action, multiple policies are subject to a single aggregate bandwidth
management setting when they share the same action. For example, consider the following two
App Rules policies:
• One manages the bandwidth for downloading executable files
• Another manages the bandwidth for P2P applications traffic
If these two policies share the same bandwidth management Action (500 Kbit/sec max
bandwidth):