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bandwidth throttling on a ASA 5510

I have a server that will be downloading about 39 gigs of data over a T1. I would like to prolong this and limit the amount of bandwidth this server can utilize during this huge download. The IP address of the server is 192.168.1.5. How can I make it where it can only utilize 384kbps of the bandwidth? It's eating up so much of the bandwidth I can't connect via IPSec....

Galtar99

You can build an extensive list of QoS policies and it depends on what you have on your network and how what is priority for you. It sounds like you just need to limit any single machine from monopolizing all the bandwidth so maybe just define a default queue and apply rate limiting with policing and a burst rate of whatever you feel comfortable with and a max burst rate of 384kbps. See this article for specifics:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa70/configuration/guide/qos.pdf

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gopher_49

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I don't want to limit the server in general, just the internet traffic. Is this possible with the QoS drive? I'd rather change the settings via the server or the ASA for the router is managed by a 3rd party.

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It's a Windows 2000 server. I installed the QoS Scheduler service, however, I didn't see a QoS driver. I also do not see anywhere to set properties on the QoS Scheduler service.

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sweet! I installed QoS Admissions Control and then installed the QoS Scheduler driver for the NIC. I then set the user that will be downloading all of the data to have a limit of 384kbps on all traffic tabs. I then downloaded a large file. My ASDM control pannel (asa 5510) shows that the connection is only using around 380-390kbps. This is exactly what I needed. This will allow this server to download patches this entire week or so and at the same time not kill all of the bandwidth.

I'm splitting the points since both of you pointed to QoS Admission control via Windows 2000 server.

Les Moore

Thanks for the feedback!
Cheers, mate!