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Need Help with QoS and a few General Things

Amadyl

Hello there,

please do not blame me for my bad english, i am not a native english speaker but i will try my best.

 

Through a Blog i found the Sophos XG for Home and i bought an ITX System with dual NICs.

Now i have a few problems.

 

1. IPS

I saw there a few IPS Policys , A general one and a LAN to WAN rule and a few others, which i can explain my self.

But i dont know which one to choose for my Home Network. Because there is a WAN to LAN rule and a LAN to WAN. 

Could someone give me an advice which is the correct one for me? And is there a Big diffrence between thos both?

 

2. QoS

I have an 50 mbit/s VDSL connection from my Provider. It has 50 Mbit/s in Download and 10 Mbit/s in Upload.

In my Network i have 3 Streaming Devices for Live TV. This devices i can only identify via MAC or Static IP which i reserved in the DHCP options.

So my question is, how to create a Traffic Shaping Rule with a reservation of 7 mbit/s for each of this clients.

The Problem here is, when i start a download on my Windows Machine, it take the whole bandwidth for the download any the TVs beginn to stutter.

 

3. VPN

Is it possible to create a VPN Login for my Clients to connect to my home network when i am not at home? The tutorials i found made for the old XG and there a whole new menu.

Could somene share a link with me for the XG 17?

 

All the other things like Custom Webfilter and so on are awesome. I like the XG very much for its innovative User Interface and the polished modern style.

 

A big thanks from me to the Community and Sophos . For give us an enterprise Firewall for Free! 



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    Hi and welcome,

    the IPS bit is easy, LAN to WAN. When you gain a little confidence with XG and its settings you can fine tune and build your own IPS rules.

    Most of the IPS rules are default templates.

    I have QOS on my VoIP phones, but never really tried it out to see if it actually works. A word of warning a lot of the values shown in XG are in KB (kilobytes) not kb (kilobits).

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Thank you for you fast answer, i think i need more time to get in the IPS. So the most important thing i need to fix is the QoS. 

     

    I had calculated it to KB/s but it wont work. The rule i set was active and i saw the sum of the traffice went up all time. now i have a few GB went trought this firewall rule. 

    But when i actually star a download on my windows client, it takes the whole bandwidth and traffic shaping is not working. Its a Rule Based Traffic Shaping policy i made. 

     

    When i get home later i will take a screenshoot. 

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Thank you for you fast answer, i think i need more time to get in the IPS. So the most important thing i need to fix is the QoS. 

     

    I had calculated it to KB/s but it wont work. The rule i set was active and i saw the sum of the traffice went up all time. now i have a few GB went trought this firewall rule. 

    But when i actually star a download on my windows client, it takes the whole bandwidth and traffic shaping is not working. Its a Rule Based Traffic Shaping policy i made. 

     

    When i get home later i will take a screenshoot. 

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