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Hi,<br />
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If you have a Cisco/Juniper/Nortel router before the ASA device you could configure Quality of Service.
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Hi,

If you have a Cisco/Juniper/Nortel router before the ASA device you could configure Quality of Service.

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Oh man. Management would kill me if I told them (after I convinced them to buy the ASAs) that we need to buy two more pieces of hardware to make it work right. <br />
I'm really hoping there is something intrinsic to the ASAs that would help me control the bandwidth usage.
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Oh man. Management would kill me if I told them (after I convinced them to buy the ASAs) that we need to buy two more pieces of hardware to make it work right.
I'm really hoping there is something intrinsic to the ASAs that would help me control the bandwidth usage.

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I have two manufacturing plants. One in Maine and one in Virginia. We're connected via a VPN tunnel with a Cisco ASA 5510 at either end. The tunnel has worked well for the most part, with one exception. As soon as a user starts to download anything large from the Internet, the tunnel suffers a great slowdown. I can see via tracert that the traffic intended for the Internet not going through the tunnel at either end, but we still experience a huge slowdown when someone downloads. Is there a way to devote say, 80% of the available bandwidth to the tunnel and allow 20% for HTTP? I'm completely new to the hardware and do most of what I do using the ADSM appliction. I do have Cisco support though and could enlist them if needed.
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I have two manufacturing plants. One in Maine and one in Virginia. We're connected via a VPN tunnel with a Cisco ASA 5510 at either end. The tunnel has worked well for the most part, with one exception. As soon as a user starts to download anything large from the Internet, the tunnel suffers a great slowdown. I can see via tracert that the traffic intended for the Internet not going through the tunnel at either end, but we still experience a huge slowdown when someone downloads. Is there a way to devote say, 80% of the available bandwidth to the tunnel and allow 20% for HTTP? I'm completely new to the hardware and do most of what I do using the ADSM appliction. I do have Cisco support though and could enlist them if needed.

How can I control the bandwidth devoted to my Cisco ASA 5510 VPN Tunnel?

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A virtual private network (VPN) is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or travelling users access to a central organizational network securely. VPNs encapsulate data transfers using secure cryptographic methods and other security mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the network and that the data cannot be intercepted.

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.