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Fortigate traffic shaping is awesome, lots of options and it all works really well. Going from 5.2 to 5.4/5.6 is quite different due to the creation of policies changing from within the firewall policy, to their own section. Either way, they all work great.
I did notice at least in 5.4 that the option to change how a policy is used do not seem to be in the GUI. Previously there were two options – “Per Policy”, and “all policies using this shaper”. Selecting “all policies using this shaper” would have all policies using that shaper object to share the guaranteed or Max bandwidth settings between all policies using that shaper. Selecting “Per Policy” allows you to dedicate those same settings to each policy referencing the shaper object.
Which gets to my point, in 5.2 you had the options below. Notice the options about how to apply the shaper.
In 5.4.5 at least notice that they are gone. Of course, if you upgraded from 5.2 the options are there.
So as with everything that does not show up in the GUI – you know it is in CLI. So I dropped down to CLI to check if the settings are still there. By editing the shaper, and using the “get” command I could see all settings and their values the policy had to offer. As I thought the option “Per-Policy” is there with the default settings of disabled. So by default, all Shaper policies have settings shared between different traffic policies referencing that shaper.
So in this case, I want to give the same percentage of bandwidth to each of the traffic shaper policies referencing my shaper object. So I will modify that option.
Now, in the GUI lets check that policy again –
Awesome, now we have the actual options to change.
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