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Learn pfSense 2.4
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Learn pfSense 2.4

by David Zientara
July 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
346 pages
10h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Traffic shaping fundamentals

Traffic shaping allows us to manage network traffic in a way that prioritizes some traffic over other traffic in order to conform to specific predefined constraints. These constraints are known as a traffic profile or agreement. For an example of such an agreement, consider looking at your contract with your ISP. Most likely, it contains a service level agreement (SLA), a traffic conditioning agreement (TCA), or both. These agreements define what traffic your ISP will accept. If packets are sent from your local network to the ISP that violate these agreements, the ISP may block them from being forwarded upstream, or, at the very least, forwarding may not be guaranteed. As a result, we generally want to make sure ...

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