Riverbed sites / networks / qos

[Dieselboy]

Anyone here using / managing theirs? I'm having some trouble understanding the sites and networks config. I have configuration in place to basically say that I have a single 10MB internet line and to do shaping and qos on this 10M link which is also used to access the main site using an ipsec VPN. But looking at it I think this is saying to the Riverbed that I have 2 x 10M links, one to the internet and one IPSEC VPN.

Their documentation is good but to someone that hasn't encountered this before it's a little tricky to understand for me. I really just want to prioritise business traffic (ie VPN traffic) over people using facebook and downloading stuff they shouldnt be.

Posting in here in the hope to have a discussion. I can go into a lot more detail

[deanwebb]

We've got Riverbeds and every time a WAN guy tries to blame a firewall, I come right back and blame a Riverbed.


But it sounds like you want to throttle Internet traffic to certain destinations - would a proxy server inline be more of what you're looking for? Internet traffic in general then all stays in the same priority queue, but the YouTube/FB/Pirate Bay stuff gets filtered or slowed at the proxy before it hits the WAN link.