# Bypass Link11 WAAP for loadtesting or other purposes

Sometimes an admin needs to bypass the WAAP's traffic filtering, for example when "attacking" an application or server as part of a loadtest. Under normal circumstances, L11WAAP would prevent this, because it would enforce rate limits and block the excessive requests from reaching the backend.

Specific requests can be exempted from L11WAAP's traffic filtering (including rate limiting) by:

* Creating a [Global Filter](/console-walkthrough/security/global-filters.md) with narrowly-defined [*Rules*](/console-walkthrough/security/global-filters.md#rule-list) (which will only match those specific requests, and no others)
* Selecting the Global Filter's *Action* to be one of type *Skip*
* And ideally, defining a unique [tag](/console-walkthrough/security/global-filters.md#tags) to assign to those requests, so they will be identifiable in the traffic logs.

Incoming requests that meet the criteria for the Global Filter will not subjected to filtering. They will be passed directly through to the backend.


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