Limiter - Max Up + Down but Shared?

mevans336

I'd like to create a limiter that never allows more than 24Mbps to be used total, upload or download, but allows a single upload or download to use all 24Mbps, if there isn't a transfer in a competing direction. Basically, limit my ipsec tunnel to 24Mbps, but allow the full 24Mbps to be used by a single upload, download, or shared if both are taking place. (This is a 95% billed pipe.)

I think what I want is a flexible limiter, like is outlined here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/3e67dk/flexible_vs_fixed_limiters_troubleshooting_with/

So I would do the following:

Create Overall Pipe
Name: 24MbpsLimiter
Bandwidth: 22Mbps
Schedule: None
Mask: None

Create a new queue
Name: UploadQueue
Mask: Source addresses

Create a new queue
Name: DownloadQueue
Mask: DestinationAddresses

Assign UploadQueue to In and the DownloadQueue to Out for the default (and only) rule on my ipsec tunnel.

Does this sound correct?

edit: I created this, started a file transfer from two different machines, and it allowed 22Mbps to be used in each direction, or 44Mbps total.

NogBadTheBad

@mevans336:

So I would do the following:

Create Overall Pipe
Name: 24MbpsLimiter
Bandwidth: 22Mbps
Schedule: None
Mask: None

Create a new queue
Name: UploadQueue
Mask: Source addresses

Create a new queue
Name: DownloadQueue
Mask: DestinationAddresses

Assign UploadQueue to In and the DownloadQueue to Out for the default (and only) rule on my ipsec tunnel.

Sounds about right, I limit my GUEST WiFi and just had a play with speediest.net wit one device then two.

Limited my download & upload to 5 Mbps, one device & speedtest = 5 Mbps two devices & speedtest = 2.5 ish mbps

You can do funky stuff with the masks, but mine are set to 32 & 128.

Actually I think thats the guide I used.