Netgear FVX538 FVX538 Reference Manual - Page 137
Router and Network Management, Performance Management, Bandwidth Capacity
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Chapter 8 Router and Network Management This chapter describes how to use the network management features of your FVX538 ProSafe VPN Firewall 200. These features can be found by clicking on the appropriate heading in the Main Menu of the browser interface. The FVX538 ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 offers many tools for managing the network traffic to optimize its performance. You can also control administrator access, be alerted to important events requiring prompt action, monitor the firewall status, perform diagnostics, and manage the firewall configuration file. Performance Management Performance management consists of controlling the traffic through the FVX538 VPN firewall so that the necessary traffic gets through when there is a bottleneck and either reducing unnecessary traffic or rescheduling some traffic to low-peak times to prevent bottlenecks from occurring in the first place. The FVX538 VPN firewall has the necessary features and tools to help the network manager accomplish these goals. Bandwidth Capacity The maximum bandwidth capacity of the FVX538 VPN firewall in each direction is as follows: • LAN side: 1,800 Mbps (eight LAN ports at 100 Mbps each, plus one Gigabit LAN port) • WAN side: 200 Mbps (load balancing mode, two WAN ports at 100 Mbps each) or 100 Mbps (rollover mode, one active WAN port at 100 Mbps) In practice, the WAN side bandwidth capacity will be much lower when DSL or cable modems are used to connect to the Internet. At 1.5 Mbps, the WAN ports will support the following traffic rates: • Load balancing mode: 3 Mbps (two WAN ports at 1.5 Mbps each) • Rollover mode: 1.5 Mbps (one active WAN port at 1.5 Mbps) Router and Network Management 8-1 January 2005