I can tell FTP sucks. I spent an hour searching around these forums and mailing lists through Google and came up with the same conclusion. I was hoping maybe someone knew something new, oh well.. Thanks for the response. I'll keep my eyes open for 1.3.

Trafficshaping in pfSense happens always outbound at an interface. This means your WAN upstream is shaped outbound at WAN whereas the WAN downstream is shaped outbound at interface LAN.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2718.0.html

Search the forum. Shaping downstream of WAN actually happens upstream on WAN. Shaping is always applied outbound of an interface. That's why your opt1 downstream is falling into the queues at LAN as well. You should add the downstream of WAN and OPT1 as overall downstream and have as upstream the upstream speed of WAN. That works best for me using 3 wans at our office.

@hoba: No, as pfSense only sees encrypted traffic passing through it. It can't determine what's inside this encrypted packages and therefore it can't shape. You only could give higher or lower priority for all that vpn traffic with the shaper but not on different traffic inside the tunnel. thanks for the reply.. I think I dont really need to shape -within- the tunnel traffic, I just want to ensure outbound/inbound TCP traffic on port 1194 (what I use for openvpn stuff) to have a higher priority than bulk traffic.  whatever happens inside the tunnels pfsense doesnt need to know about in my case, i think.. so the traffic shaper should be able to help me somewhat

Yes, for embedded and yes for fitting your needs. Though the issue of configuring it still remains. Meaning there are 4 wizards till now in there but still do not feet everybody setups.

ok sullrich, thanks a lot! as I'm in Brazil, I dont know how can I contribute, but I'll check this, ok! I always used pfsense since 0.9x and pretend keep using it!!! Thanks a lot!

Hmm that is alot more complicated than i thought!  I redid the shaper wizard again and its working much much better.  Im not sure how to add some of these rules manually, so i checked the box for the p2p catch all, and then selected all of the individual p2p services.  Now skype shows up again in the p2p que!  must be associating it with one of the rules… now if i could just figure out which one its using! As far as bandwith: p2p up - i assigned 256Kb realtime, 60% bandwidth p2p down - 256Kb realtime, 25% bandwidth ack up - 25% (standard) ack down - 25% (standard) queOthersUpH - 10% queOthersDownH - 40% queOthersUpL - 1% min queOthersDownL - 1% min Its working MUCH much better now.  I am able to skype with my wife and watch others surf the net!!!  After reading that last post, i cant claim that i know exactly why it works like it does.  I am still trying to learn though.  My question is this though - what is the difference between queOthersH and L?  most of the http traffic seemed to go through H, so that is why i traffic shaped it the way i did.  But sometimes the traffic will go through queOthersL - whats the difference? Thanks again for all your help and time.  I dont take it for granted.  ; :D

The video and files come over HTTP, so I'm not sure how to get the shaper to distinguish between regular traffic and extended length traffic (like the video). I'm comfortable using the CLI, if there is a method that way. I'm trying to do this without creating a list of known hosts to shape into their own queue. That will be my last resort.

Fixed the issue….. I guess with https sites the upper limit needs to be 10kb or more i had set to 5kb

Thanks Hoba, I'll try this untill new traffic shaper is ready. Saludos Alfredo

YEs setup realtime parameter. Search the forum there is a thread for Flwless/Seamless VOIP

Pretty soon. Check the blog.

Not yet http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=174

in second post: NO p2p traffic! is 10M download line 1M http download and 0.128M for radio use of wizard, 2 connection, and don't work well?!

I had similar problem with 1.2 and cant see shaper works here. It shows this same error and cannot limit bandwith of a penalty queue, for example. I had re-run shaper without success. any idea?

Nope, figured it out. I had all "unclassed or unknown traffic" going to my ptp queue which I had set at 56k speeds. Guess I need to be less concerned with actual "speed" on the network and start thinking "usability and quality of web experience".

Just do you classification right and you do not need scheduled shaping. The discipline that you have HFSC allows for traffic in lower queues to use the whole available bandwidth when available.