SnapGear 1.7.8 - Manual (Page 60)

Advanced networking
Users can perform the following diagnostic tasks on the Advanced Networking screen:
• Perform a Ping Test.
• Perform a Trace Route Test (not available on LITE and LITE+ due to memory
constraints).
• View the Interface Configuration.
• View the Kernel Route Table.
The advanced networking configuration tasks Traffic Shaping and Additional Routes
are also accessed using the Advanced Networking page.
Traffic shaping
The Traffic Shaping feature of your SnapGear appliance allows you to allocate High,
Medium, or Low priority to the following services: domain (tcp), domain (udp), ftp, ftp-
data, http, https, imap, irc, nntp, ntp, pop3, smtp, ssh, and telnet.
Traffic Shaping provides a level of control over the relative performance of various types
of IP traffic. This advanced feature is provided for expert users to fine tune their networks.
Additional routes
The Additional routes feature allows expert users to add additional static routes for the
SnapGear appliance. These routes are additional to those created automatically by the
SnapGear appliance configuration scripts.
Network configuration
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