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Force all streaming video to specific gateway?

Arie

We're running an educational setup in a rural area with limited internet access. I have two gatewys configured:

  1. DSL @ 3 Mbps
  2. LTE/4G @ 20 Mbps but subject to 'network management' (i.e. throttling) if we use too much data (provider won't specifiy how much is too much).

Is there a way to route all streaming video (the largest bandwidth hog) to the DSL gateway?

I know this can be done by user, group, service, etc - but I can't find a clear-cut way to do this for streaming.



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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    You cannot split the traffic depending on Application / Web to specific gateways.

    XG can only match traffic based on Source IP (User), Destination IP and Service (443) and force a specific gateway on this traffic. 

     

    Everything on "Advanced" is already matched with the criteria mentioned above. 

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  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    But he has "none" matched in Application and web.

    Ian

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    The screen captures are merely to indicate which settings I thought you were referring to - it's not a valid policy.

     

  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    "Everything on "Advanced" is already matched with the criteria mentioned above. "

    OK - that's what I had assumed.

    So XG is the same as SG/UTM in routing to a specific gateway (multipath rules)?

  • 0 in reply to Arie

    In this Case - Yes. 

    Multipath Rules are some kind the same mechanic like XG performs with its Firewall Handling.  

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  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Maybe I misunderstand Application policies, but to me you setup a policy on the preferred gateway that allows video streaming and on the none preferred gateway you setup another application policy that blocks video streaming. That forces all video streaming on the the preferred gateway?

    Ian

    XG115W - v19.5.1 mr-1 - Home

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    You are completely right in this approach.

    The point is, if you have two Gateways and want to force for example Youtube to go to Gateway A and the Rest of the HTTPs Traffic to Gateway B, this is not possible. 

    It uses HTTPs Traffic (443), so XG cannot split the traffic properly. 

     

    Application Control is a Block/allow mechanism. So if the criteria matching above (Source / Destination / Service), XG will perform the block / allow.

    You are stuck now in this Firewall rule and we are not considering any other firewall rule below (First match). 

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