Application specific BWM in Flex 100

kelmi

Hello,

Is it possible to define traffic priorities (mainly) and/or bandwidth for specific Apps Patrol -identified applications? It seems to be so that BWM policy is possible to be done only for pre-defined Application Groups?

K

Zyxel_James

Hello @kelmi,

Yes, in BWM policy, we only can select the pre-defined applications as the Service Type.


James

kelmi

Zyxel_James said:

Hello @kelmi,

Yes, in BWM policy, we only can select the pre-defined applications as the Service Type.


James

Thank's for the answer,

This seems to be a difference between Flex 100 and USG40. Is there any plans to use BWM for all the selected apps, what can be found with Application Patrol? I think, use case is evident in an environment, where e.g online gaming and corporate apps are used within the same WAN. 

Regards
K

PeterUK

You can use WILDCARD FQDN in BWM like *googlevideo.com or *ttvnw.net

The USG can't truly know what APP your running which is where this idea can help.
Virtual firewall link to USG/Zywall/VPN — Zyxel Community

kelmi

PeterUK said:

You can use WILDCARD FQDN in BWM like *googlevideo.com or *ttvnw.net

The USG can't truly know what APP your running which is where this idea can help.
Virtual firewall link to USG/Zywall/VPN — Zyxel Community

Thank's for the hint,

Could you please elaborate a little more what do you mean USG can't truly know what APP is running? I thought deep packet inspection with fingerprints from the cloud are for that purpose?

Regards
K

PeterUK

Theirs only so much deep packet inspection can do like know the ports a app uses or IP's and look in SSL/TLS to know the web site your going to but to really know what App the client is using not so much.

My was would have a APP on the client device relying to the Zywall what to allow allow/drop a bit like TCPView but not a firewall as that done by Zywall then you can add BWM rules for app run by the client.

Zyxel_James

Hello @kelmi,

Yes, ZLD V5.XX is application-based bandwidth is different than ZLD V4.XX which is application-object-based.

May I know which application you want to implement BWM? Could you query the application in the app patrol profile?


James

kelmi

Zyxel_James said:

Hello @kelmi,

Yes, ZLD V5.XX is application-based bandwidth is different than ZLD V4.XX which is application-object-based.

May I know which application you want to implement BWM? Could you query the application in the app patrol profile?


James

Hello,

Yes, I can find the couple games, I would like to make a BWM rule from the Apps Patrol query list. How does it help here?

Regards
K

Zyxel_James

@kelmi,

The current design of the application group in the BWM profile will remain unchanged.
Could you please let us know which specific applications you are interested in applying for BWM? We will review the requested category for adding to the application group, thanks

James

mMontana

@Zyxel_James consider than any casting, meeting, conferencing and video-call application is a bandwidth hog.
Identify the most used one (starting from Zoom, following with Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Jitsi, Whatsapp, Telegram, Skype, Discord) and adding the most used casting apps (OBS, Streamyard, Streamlabs) could be a gamechanger for the management.