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Firewall Failover Rules

Thomas Baker

Hello all,

 

I have been looking but have be unable to find the answers to some questions about something I hope to accomplish. First Ill give you a little background info. 


We currently have a 40Mbps DSL connection and a 10Mbps Metro E Fiber connection (handed off a Ethernet) for failover. There are the only 2 connections available in our building until the Cable company build out we are working on is finished.  Currently we have fail over setup and it seems to work just fine however I would like to accomplish the following:

 

Whenever the connection fails over to the 10Mbps I would like to have a firewall policy (but only when it is on the fail over connection), in order to limit the total usable bandwidth to 6Mbps  and block some things such as iTunes, Youtube and other higher bandwidth media streaming. 


Is this possible? If so how would I be able to accomplish this exclusively on the fail over connection?

 

Thank you,

Thomas



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    Thomas,

    what you are trying to achieve is not possible. Open a feature request on ideas.sophos.com so everyone can vote it!

    Regards,

  • 0 in reply to lferrara

    Hello,

     

    After playing around I believe I have created a rule for connection going out Port 4 which is the failover connection. Would this not work for blocking services such a YouTube, I haven't figured out how to put a limit on the speed but I thought it would work for blocking traffic going through port for or am I wrong? We are in a live environment so I haven't taken down the primary connection to test it yet. 

  • 0 in reply to Thomas Baker

    Inside the firewall rule you can decide the primary gateway to be used. If you set a gateway that is acting as failover, that gateway will be used. Firewall rule overrides the Failover group in this case.

    Thanks

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