Setting ports priorities, how?

cruzades

i'm a noob and used ipcop before, ipcop has its feature wherein you can assign ports priorities from high to low (high, medium, low).

is pfsense has this feature too?

thanks

jahonix

It's propably 4 years since I last looked at IPcop so help me out please. What do you want to do with priorities on ports?
There is a traffic shaper you might want to look at.

cruzades

i would like to give high priorities with YM ports, my own server/client ports, and less priorities with other else.

about traffic shape of pfsense, i neve looked at that yet.

are you sure that traffic shaping you're referring to will serve the things i want?

thanks
-cruzades

jahonix

…depends on how you define a port. ;D

If you're talking about network ports on a switch or NIC you are probably right.
If you want to priorize a service like HTTP on port 80 then use traffic shaping.

cruzades

here:

my client/server ports = port 10
ym ports = 5000-5001, 5000-5010, 5050, 5100
http port = 80
client advertisement port = 3600, 3800

i would like to give those ports higher priorities compared with other ports, so, if traffic shaping will do that, please teach me how to do it.

thanks
-cruzades

cruzades

btw

i have this screenie of my ipcop's re:port priorities

dvserg

@cruzades:

here:

my client/server ports = port 10
ym ports = 5000-5001, 5000-5010, 5050, 5100
http port = 80
client advertisement port = 3600, 3800

i would like to give those ports higher priorities compared with other ports, so, if traffic shaping will do that, please teach me how to do it.

thanks
-cruzades

Simple way - use wizard and change wizard-result-rules as you need's

jahonix

The traffic shaper is exactly what you want.
You can configure queues and assign priorities to them. A lot more granular than 'high', 'med' and 'low' with the cop.

Check out the shaper wizard and adjust the results if you want.

cruzades

thanks Chris

i will look to that soon, too bad, my pfsense box just broke down yesterday and i'm starting to re-build it again.

my setup was 1.2-RC3 and i'm gonna use 1.2-RC2 at this time :(

i guess, 1.2-RC3 is not that really stable yet compared to RC2, wad do think?

jahonix

Agreed.
1.2RC3 has some issues - at least some of the versions. But since we are lacking a build no. it's hard to tell which one…