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Untangle Network Security

By : Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab
Book Image

Untangle Network Security

By: Abd El Monem A Mohamed El Bawab

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Untangle Network Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

WAN Balancer


With Untangle's WAN Balancer, you can distribute your traffic across multiple ISPs to provide a higher bandwidth for your network. Untangle NGFW will dynamically distribute the traffic to different WAN interfaces based on the set rules. Untangle NGFW distributes the traffic based on the number of sessions and not bytes.

Untangle's WAN Balancer will not increase the total available speed for one session, but it will increase the available bandwidth for your entire network. For example, if you have 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps connections, no individual session can use the 3 Mbps. Instead, a session can use the 2 Mbps connection and another session can use the 1 Mbps connection.

Configuring traffic allocation

You could set the weights of traffic to be directed to each WAN interface under the WAN Balancer Settings | Traffic Allocation tab. By default, Untangle will divide the load equally on the different interfaces. Thus, if you have two interfaces, each interface will get 50 percent of the...