so experts ? i tried to do it configuring first a limiter and then using http video in the layer 7 section of trafic shaper and choose the limiter i created for this protocole. but didn't work. i even tried on the lan interface to activate the limiter at the bottom of the pic, in front of ' l-7' advanced option ( i think) but also no result. help please ! ps : i have 2 interfaces : 1 wan and 1 lan

I've not used that.  I just prioritize RTP traffic, so I have no info on your issue, sorry…

@kirlox_kitoy: It is the wizard configuration that set the values of 1 and 25 percent I thought in 1.x the wizard sets default queues = 10% and ack queues = 10% (and 1% to the real-time bandwidth). Anyway qwandef=1% is too small to suppress qP2P (unless you don't want to) and qwanack=25% is much larger than necessary for a symmetric link. I would prefer something like 5%-20% and 5%-10%, respectively. Graphs tell you nothing about accuracy of the shaper. Queue loads should be calculated from systematic measurements with pftop.

TCP traffic needs to acknowledge that it received a packet. That is what the qAcks is for. UDP traffic doesn't acknowledge that it received a packet. If you look at the rules you will see that TCP traffic uses qACKs/qGames while the UDP traffic only uses the qGames queue.

good to hear!!

@ay01: maybe it's little out of subject but i was asked to find out how to implement pfsense into an active directory server. is anyone has an idea about it ? or in other word, how can pfsense features be usefull for me when implementing it into an active directory server. search the forum, search http://doc.pfsense.org then post a new topic in the correct section…

Sir, can i boost my web browsing and download by modifying my qwanacks? which will i tweak the qlanacks or the qwanacks? I cant picture it out it seems that queues are still the same when i try to tweak it by percentage or by bandwidth.

hi everyone. i'm trying to understant what does " the httpvideo " or the "httpaudio" protocols means or how do pfsense work with so that the traffic shapper can lower the video downloads on web pages or the audio download etc. i'm working on a project about l7 filtring and i choosed pfsense to demonstrate and explain l7 filtring. i work on pfsense 2.0 RC1 on virtuals machine on vm ware and i need to shape traffic beetween lan interface and wan interface. anw, that's why i want to understand how do httpvideo in 'l7' section into the trafic shapper works. thanks you and hope a quick answer.

didn't work, can you send me your rules? Maybe i'm missing something… One more thing, the problem seems to occur only with UDP traffic, the activity i'm seeing on the qgames wan is TCP traffic...

Add a rule to shape ICMP traffic and send it to the highest priority queue.

So I have looked into this a bit more, and read up on ALTQ etc. I understand now a bit more about how it works, and why you can only shape traffic the leaves an interface (because if you think about it once the traffic has entered the interface its already there and used up the bandwith). What I would like to know though is if I have multiple VLANs assigned to the same physical interface, can I think add a queue to that interface and shape all the traffic across the multiple VLANs? Regards Ben

diagnostics > backup/restore, remove the ".txt" of the file name before upload to the firewall i also recomend to update pfsense to the lastest version

Just noticed this relatively old thread - is the OP still affected/interested?