Hello
I am looking for the best solution in giving a URL priority over any other sites being visited for all users.
Cheers Paul
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Hello
I am looking for the best solution in giving a URL priority over any other sites being visited for all users.
Cheers Paul
Please refer to this QoS Guide: Sophos UTM: QoS and add that URL in traffic selector and apply a QoS policy for that.
Regards
Jaydeep
Hi Paul and welcome to the UTM Community!
It looks like Jaydeep was thinking about another tool because you can't use a URL in QoS in the UTM. When you define the Traffic Selector, use the FQDN of the URL in a DNS Group object as the Destination. If you name that object "Preferred URL," the Selector would be 'Any -> Web Surfing -> Preferred URL'.
Cheers - Bob
Thanks Bob, that is exactly how I had created the Traffic selector.
My next question now is when creating the Bandwidth Pool do I bind that on our Internal Interface or our WAN Interface?.
Is it possible to give some priority to traffic coming inbound from that URL ??
Thanks Paul
A Bandwidth Pool guarantees outbound bandwidth on the interface to which it is bound, so you would use this Traffic Selector in a Pool bound to External.
You could bind a Pool with the opposite Traffic Selector to Internal, but that probably wouldn't gain you much. The inbound problem can only be addressed with Download Throttling rules, but that's a dull knife. Say you have a 100Mbps Internet connection and wanted to guarantee at least 20Mbps to the Preferred, you would do that with two Throttling rules, in order:
You only can favor select inbound traffic by limiting all other traffic. The first rule above merely creates an exception for the second one.
Cheers - Bob