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Originally Posted by Azure
I would assume you CAN buy an appliance that will shape SSL traffic though.
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The Sonicwalls can probably do it, but probably in a more rudimentary fashion than an appliance dedicated to the task. They also might need to have Enhanced OS instead of Standard OS.
Just theory, but in the Sonicwalls firewall access rules (LAN -> WAN zone, or VPN -> WAN zone, depending on your setup) you could create a new rule to allow https traffic. It's already allowed, of course, but by creating a new rule for just https you can then play around with it and not affect anything else.
And then, on the Ethernet BWM tab of the rule, reserve 0% bandwidth for https BUT change the Bandwidth Priority setting to "7 lowest".
If that has the desired affect, then later you could add yet another https rule of higher priority that "whitelists" known online banking sites.
Like I said, just a theory since I've never attempted it myself.
EDIT: You won't get pretty charts like on the Arbor device though, and if money is no object...