Traffic shaper changes [90% completed, please send money to complete bounty]

gandyman · Mar 3, 2008, 9:36 PM

I am already for a while on this forum but post not much becouse I want to figger things out for myself.

enyway.
I read a lot here aboud this and other bounty's and the devellopping from such bounty.

See also ppl say:
Wen it can do this and that I pledge $75.

Se there is some need to inform how much $ is needed for such bounty, how much amound of $ went in, how far the progres from the new software is, and what it can or cannot do.

With this knowledge ppl wil pay or wil not pay, simple as that.

The team make the software wen money come's in,
And not how it happen now on pledge, because this is no stable base where you can count on.

I can pledge a 100 000 but wen I dont pay that is the end..

So only thing I wanna say is good information and wen pay they make things.
This wil run smooth and good, and you wil see no more trouble or confusion.

heiko · Mar 3, 2008, 9:57 PM

What is your intention about this thread, "indoctrination", i don´t know,
all of the folks here do the very best…

Regards
heiko

gandyman · Mar 4, 2008, 12:54 AM

??? indoctrination ???

My English must be realy bad if you read it this all negative. ??

Read it al back again.

last attempt to explain it to you.
This is just my 2 pence ,Tip or Idea or whatever to let futere bounty devollepment run smooth,
aswel for the ppl here as for the PFSense team.
So there is no more confusion …

nothing more

heiko · Mar 4, 2008, 8:56 AM

i have read it and yes, i have to understand this…. ;)

as well, nothing more

djmizt · Mar 4, 2008, 10:45 PM

donated $100 to paypal@chrisbuechler.com for this project

qluk · Mar 6, 2008, 1:45 PM

OK, my 50$ go to paypal@chrisbuechler.com :]
good job :)

NateDavis · Mar 10, 2008, 5:43 PM

I have just a few questions, and would be willing to donate a few hundered dollars to get a copy of this feature earlier than waiting for 1.3, but I need to make sure it will work in my environment. Attached is a small JPEG outlining the setup I want to use this feature for. I would love to be able to use it in bridge mode (between just two nics), if I can do two things (This is planned for the whole pipe):

1. Standard QoS - RDP, VoIP, and OpenVPN Traffic taking all priorities, and all others at a lower priority. I am confident this is included with this release. (I have VoIP Traffic running over the OpenVPN, but as I understand this thread, we will be able to shape this as well if we want to.) Right now, if I just shape the OpenVPN to take priority, then that will take care of VoIP.

2. Traffic Limiting - Being able to limit traffic (down to 3mbit instead of 10mbit) based on source IP or MAC Address. The picture attached, might explain this better, but in essence, I want to limit the tenants firewalls in our building. Total bandwith incoming and outgoing, and if that is not an option, at least give priority to source IPs.

If someone with better knowledge than I of what this new shapper is capable of could reply to this message and explain if these features are avaliable with this release, I will then be able to find out what my company is willing to send.

Thanks again!
Nate

eri-- · Mar 10, 2008, 6:07 PM

@NateDavis:

I have just a few questions, and would be willing to donate a few hundered dollars to get a copy of this feature earlier than waiting for 1.3, but I need to make sure it will work in my environment. Attached is a small JPEG outlining the setup I want to use this feature for. I would love to be able to use it in bridge mode (between just two nics), if I can do two things (This is planned for the whole pipe):

1. Standard QoS - RDP, VoIP, and OpenVPN Traffic taking all priorities, and all others at a lower priority. I am confident this is included with this release. (I have VoIP Traffic running over the OpenVPN, but as I understand this thread, we will be able to shape this as well if we want to.) Right now, if I just shape the OpenVPN to take priority, then that will take care of VoIP.

Yes, you can do this.

2. Traffic Limiting - Being able to limit traffic (down to 3mbit instead of 10mbit) based on source IP or MAC Address. The picture attached, might explain this better, but in essence, I want to limit the tenants firewalls in our building. Total bandwith incoming and outgoing, and if that is not an option, at least give priority to source IPs.

Yes you can do this too. Seems like CBQ is a good candidate for your needs.

If someone with better knowledge than I of what this new shapper is capable of could reply to this message and explain if these features are avaliable with this release, I will then be able to find out what my company is willing to send.

Thanks again!
Nate

I do not know if you need more elaborated answer!

NateDavis · Mar 10, 2008, 6:30 PM

ermal,

Thanks for your quick response. If I were able to donate $200 today, Is there an upgrade to update my new pfSense box I can get within the next week, or are we still out a little more time?

Let me know,
Thanks,
Nate

eri-- · Mar 10, 2008, 6:33 PM

AFAIK i am trying to roll the update now :).

NateDavis · Mar 10, 2008, 6:45 PM

Wonderful, give me about 3 hours to get approval, and I will send $200 to paypal@chrisbuechler.com for this Bounty.

Thanks so much for your efforts!

Nate

NateDavis · Mar 10, 2008, 8:47 PM

Done and Sent. $200 to paypal@chrisbuechler.com for this feature.

Thanks again for your time and effort. It is making a difference.

Looking forward to the new release,
Nate

pogi · Mar 11, 2008, 7:20 AM

I have just discovered this thread and bounty, and would like to know if this would allow me to do the following and I would be very happy to send a payment of $100

I have 2 WAN, 1 of the WAN's is for use by DMZ VOIP only, and the other is for my LAN.

I am planning to get another WAN DSL.

I would really like to be able to have:

LAN Machine 1 <> WAN 1 with shaping for giving priority based on protocols etc
LAN Machine 2 <> WAN 2 with shaping for giving priority based on protocols etc
DMZ VOIP <> WAN3 with shaping for giving priority based on protocols etc

Would also be nice to send certain traffic from LAN to WAN3 to be shaped etc.

Is this possible, sorry I a bit confused.

Thanks

Lee

eri-- · Mar 11, 2008, 4:52 PM

I have 2 WAN, 1 of the WAN's is for use by DMZ VOIP only, and the other is for my LAN.

That's the bounty requirement and it is fulfilled.

As for the other parts those are rfeatures that pfSense supports already.

eri-- · Mar 11, 2008, 11:50 PM

All the people that have contributed to this bounty should have a PM(private message) on their inboxes.
If by any chance i have left anybody out please contact me.

Thank you again to all of you.

colin7151 · Mar 12, 2008, 1:15 AM

Ok, just sent $200 to paypal@chrisbuechler.com

pogi · Mar 12, 2008, 2:10 AM

sent $100 to paypal@chrisbuechler.com

Lee

gandyman · Mar 12, 2008, 7:13 PM

Thx ermal for the great job.

NateDavis · Mar 14, 2008, 3:05 AM

All seems to be working pretty good in my environment with this new Traffic Shapper. The only problem I am having, is I would like to be able to see the queue's and there total usage so I can troubleshoot where the problems are. When I clock Traffic Shaper under the Firewall menu, I do see the shaper and the settings I have made. But when I goto Status, and choose Queues, and it returns back, "Traffic shaping is currently disabled." Let me know if I am doing something wrong…

Thanks!
Nate

P.S. I did use the EZ Traffic Shaper to create my rules.

eri-- · Mar 14, 2008, 9:06 AM

Hmm its a forgotten merge on the update i gave just change this from the /usr/local/www/status_queues.php

63 if(!isset($config['shaper']['enable'])) {
to
if (!is_array($config['shaper']['queue'])) {

The numbers are the line number.

Or if you wish go here to this link and save it in your pfSense router as /usr/local/www/status_queues.php.

Sorry about the disruption. It will be fixed on the next one.