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Simplest way to limit bandwidth for internet browsing to preserve for VOIP traffic

L1 Bithead

Here's my situation.  We recently went live with a hosted VOIP system (CallTower hosted Cisco UC). We are relocating our office in a few months so we decided not to put in a dedicated circuit for voice and instead use our 20 meg DIA connection. 

We have a PA-200, my guess is about 20 to 30 users max using the internet concurrently and same with phones. 

We have a Cisco ASA 5505 that is bypassing the PA-200 and making a direct VPN connection to CallTower and carrying the voice traffic.  Since the PA-200 is not directly connected to the ASA - I don't think I can take advantage of the QOS policies for the VOIP traffic; however, I would like to put a limit on the amount of bandwidth used for Internet browsing/uploads and downloads, so that our bandwidth doesn't get maxed out if someone decides to download a large file and compromise the VOIP quality.   

Is there an easy way to use the QOS profile/policy to limit internet traffic (ingress/egress) for an IP address range so we can preserve enough bandwidth for the ASA to use to carry the VOIP traffic? 

 

Thanks for any advice. 

 

 

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L5 Sessionator

Yes you can configure QOS policies for a subnet or ip addresses.

 

Step 1 Configure QOS profile

QOS_Profile.png

 

Step 2 QOS policy

 

Specify the traffic on which you have to apply  the QOS

QOS_Policy.png

 

Step 3 Appy the QOS:

 

Main task is while applying the QOS: In this example ethernet1/2 is LAN interface and ethernet1/1 is WAN interface

 

QOS_Apply .png

 

For downloading apply the QOS on ethernet1/2 and for upload apply the QOS on ethernet1/1

 

Refer to the docs:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Documentation-Articles/QoS-in-PAN-OS-4-1/ta-p/56051

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Configuration-Articles/Incorrect-QoS-Configuration-Caused-Netwo...

 

Hope this helps

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