Tenants
3 min
Rate Limiting
Rate limiting allows you to control how much bandwidth a tenant network can consume across internet or inter-tenant connections.
Create Limit Rule
- From the Top Menu, click Networks -> List
- Select the desired tenant network (e.g., tenant_Development, tenant_PCI, etc.)
- From the left menu, click View
- From the left menu, click Rules
- From the left menu, click New
- Enter a Name for the rule
- (Optional), Enter a Description
- Action, select Accept
- Protocol, select ANY
- Direction, select Incoming
- Interface, select Auto
- Pin, select Top
- Toggle Enable Throttle
- Enter the desired Throttle rule
- Configure Source
To limit Upload from the tenant out
- Type, select My Network Address
- Configure Destination
To limit Download to the tenant in
- Type, select My Network Address
- Click Submit
⚠️ Click Apply Rules to apply the changes
To rate limit traffic in BOTH directions with the same rule simply leave source and destination as Any / None.
Throttle Rules
Throttling rules use the syntax <value>/<time_unit> [burst <packets/bytes>]
- 2 mbytes/second - 2 Megabytes per second (~16Mb/s)
- 100/second - 100 packets per second
- 100mbytes/day burst 10 mbytes - 100 Megabytes per day, with a 10MB burst