Cisco ASA QoS Policy: Making sure that Blackberry Push doesn't come to Shove!

[webmeister]

With two Bittorrenting kids at home, something had to be done to prioritize my outbound BESx connections, right? I mean, now that I'm running my tech blog / home site something like a business (yeah, right!) I have to make sure that my BESx users (my wife and I) get priority treatment. After all, we don't want the BlackBerry's flagship "push" email system to become "shove". Get it....push comes to shove.... Oops, sorry.

Anyway, in all seriousness, I have decided to use Cisco's Modular Policy Framework (MPF) on the Breezy! Site ASA 5505 to ensure that all BESx, HTTP/S and email traffic (IMAPS, MSA) traffic gets dispatched by the low-latency queue feature on the firewall's outside Internet-facing interface by using the "priority" action

BESx Traffic -- Making Sure that Push doesn't come to Shove! | Breezy! Site

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[eBoyDog]

Not knowing how large your home network is and how much internet pipe you have at home, but aren't you kinda going overboard? You might want to look more at controling your bittorrent teenagers since that can get you into a ton of legal issues!

With regards to internet bandwidth, are you having some sort of problem with your BESx? I have a couple hundred BES users on my BES with only a 10Mb internet connection along with roughly 2,000 hosts accessing the internet and so far I have have no issue with BES not being able to push (or shove?).

[webmeister]

Originally Posted by eBoyDog

Not knowing how large your home network is and how much internet pipe you have at home, but aren't you kinda going overboard? You might want to look more at controling your bittorrent teenagers since that can get you into a ton of legal issues!

With regards to internet bandwidth, are you having some sort of problem with your BESx? I have a couple hundred BES users on my BES with only a 10Mb internet connection along with roughly 2,000 hosts accessing the internet and so far I have have no issue with BES not being able to push (or shove?).

Overkill? Yes, definitely (!) but..... I only have a DSL connection at home, so BESx's push email is using my upstream bandwidth which is only 600 kbps. We have only two BESx users (my wife and I) and yes, Bittorrent is an issue from time to time. Legal issues? Murky waters for sure, but hey, I live in Canada!

My main reason for doing this solution is because it's something my enterprise customers do. I'm a network engineer and traffic shaping, engineering and QoS is too often an after thought in many network designs.

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