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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

Chapter 9. Optimizing Network Traffic

Untangle's Bandwidth Control application can be used to enhance your bandwidth usage. Using Bandwidth Control, you can prevent certain users from draining the whole bandwidth by setting quotas. You can also limit the bandwidth assigned to certain protocols (such as BitTorrent). Untangle's Web Cache, provides a local cache of the recently visited websites. This can allow users when rerequesting this website to download the data from the local cache instead of redownloading the data, which could enhance their browsing experience.

The same method that was used to explain the applications in the previous chapters will be used here. We will first introduce the application, then cover how it works and any related technical details, see how we can review the event logs, and finally give some lab-based training. The list of topics that will be covered in this chapter is as follows:

  • Untangle's Bandwidth Control

  • Untangle's Web Cache