FortiGate: Basic Traffic Shaping Of YouTube (FortiOS 6.4.0)

Embarrassed to say that I had to redo this video. Thanks to my viewers for letting me know the original had a glaring mistake! It's ok, I have hired a fellow engineer for quality control!

This video dives into an organization that only has a 20 meg internet connection. They need to limit youtube to 5 megs or less of their bandwidth so business functions will continue as intended. They don't want to block Youtube because they look at it as a morale booster for their group.

Dive in to the video and learn how to Traffic Shape YouTube on a FortiGate that is running FortiOS 6.4.0

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[boris]

Great video. Nice to see, you're back with frequent videos.

[matrixramiro]

hello friend can you make a video of how to configure traffic shaping in a VPN SITE to SITE

[sameerpervaiz]

Good One, make a video on SIP ALG as well, I have seen this issue multiple time in the multi Tenent environment cheers

[MountainStateAngler]

Great video. IF i wanted to make sure Zoom and Teams were getting good bandwidth would i similarily do it here?

[krey]

Thank you for another very helpful video.

[kkalra]

Thanks for clear instructions, on spot !!!

[mariuscarciumaru]

Wish i would've found your video tutorials years ago. Great content always. Traffic shaping goes next in my organization. I think a better video will be using same policy and suppress the windows updates that are killing our computers and networks these days .

[katomustapha]

Hello. How do i access the forti Analyzer to know which applications or devices are consuming high bandwidth

[reprovoa]

Hi. Thanks for the upload.
I've tried running this but not getting any standard results with youtube via browser. Only ever got it to work a couple od times and that was just random. From what Fortigate support has told us, we need to enable deep SSL inspection and have SSL certs installed on devices.

[QuarterZipBro]

Good stuff and what I was looking for. i need to build and test this in my lab. If you wanted to do another video with more indepth features that would be appreciated.

[willlyons]

nice video on shaping; can you do one on SIP?

[maharajaofgarampani]

Thanks for this video. Your explanation is very clear. Would really appreciate, if you could make a video for Per-IP, because this is essential for my business. Secondly, please explain, in case we need to modify it, after making it live. One more very important request, is it possible to do this shaping for any device by MAC Address, instead of an IP. because only MAC remains static. Thanks

[crispytek]

Hey! I know this might sound weird, but I believe that my college dorm's internet has used traffic shaping to slow down netflix. Now the weird part, is that it is the only site that has been throttled down, prime, hulu and hotstar all seem to work fine. It has been throttled down so much that netflix loads in basic html. Is there a bypass to this, the technical coordinator says that no such thing has happened so this isn't illegal if I manage to bypass it.

[rhenriksen]

I would have really liked to see how the app control security policy was configured. That's the piece of the puzzle that's missing for me - how the traffic shaping policy, and the firewall policy, are linked.

[staley]

Amazing content! Do you think this would work the opposite? For example I want certain applications to have priority. Could I set up a Traffic Shaper with large bandwidth and high priority. And then setup a Traffic Shaping Policy to include the application on all source, destination, and interfaces?

[danet]

Thank you for the video. It really helps a lot. Does Traffic Shaping work on multicast traffic?

[philixwartef]

Thank you for this Video. Can you share the details of Youtube you have created? The URLs or perhaps advise where to get the URL specific for youtube.

[mahmoodshehab]

Could you please have a shot on "traffic shaping profile"

[veefirek]

This is great, thanks. Can I use traffic shapers to prioritize Microsoft Teams traffic?

[jeffffff]

I've tried applying this for people watching Twitch on the network but under "traffic shapers" it never shows much bandwidth utilization if any. Which is kinda strange because if I view the bandwidth being used by twitch on the FG its way more. Any ideas?