Traffic Shaper Drops qOthersDownH

[jlepthien]

Thanks for the info. So I am not the only one ;)
Any word from the pfSense Team?

[jlepthien]

Any help would be really appreciated….

Thanks ;)

[xaviero]

try this,
adjust ur qwanack to 50%, n qlanack to 50%

[jlepthien]

I will try that and report back. Thanks.

[jlepthien]

Still getting lots of drops. See attached screenshot…

[danswartz]

where did the others queues come from?  how did you configure the shaper?

[jlepthien]

What do you mean by come from? I simply used the wizard…
After that I tried to adjust the percentages in the queues, that's all I did...

These are my http(s) queues from what I understand. They were named like this from the beginning...

[danswartz]

I don't have the "others" queues, which is why I asked.  I know you used the wizard - what I was getting at was: what did you fill in in all the screens?

[xaviero]

what ports drops?? http or https ?

can u set qp2pup n qp2pdown to priority 2 , of course after u set qotherupl n qotherdownl to 3.

then, move the qp2p after qother(down/up)l… so u can get the priority 0 - 1 -7 - 4 - 3 - 2 , and if u want, try move the priority to the bottom list too.

sorry, if this cann't help either.

[jlepthien]

@danswartz:

I don't have the "others" queues, which is why I asked.  I know you used the wizard - what I was getting at was: what did you fill in in all the screens?

Are you using 1.2.3, too? I am using the embedded version.

[danswartz]

yes, on 1.2.3 here.  it would help to know what the queues are and how the traffic is being directed to them.

[jlepthien]

Hmm. I will check this out again. I have p2p catch-all activated, but otherwise nothing special. I will re-run the wizard with all set to standard and see what happens.

[jlepthien]

I re-run the wizard again but it does not seem to be any better….

The only things I changed in the wizard is that I use p2p-catchall and I put http(s) and IPSec traffic on higher priority. Now have a look at my queues, I still have the others queues so that seems to be right.

Anything else I can do? I do not get it. Why all the drops? There is no other traffic at the moment, just a big iTunes download, so there shouldn't be any of these...

[jlepthien]

And here is a screenshot of my queues…

[danswartz]

Curious about something.  Is there actually a problem, or you just want to know why the drops happen?  By "problem", I mean slow/stalled downloads?  The only way pfsense can shape inbound traffic is to drop packets when the speed gets too high, which will slow down the sender.

[jlepthien]

Well, the "problem" is, that the speed is slower, when traffic shaping is enabled and I download via http. This should not happen. I want all speed for http traffic when it arrives. I do not do anything besides downloading via http when the drops happen…

[danswartz]

But this makes no sense - you have no control over what gets put into the pipe at the ISP's end, only when you are uploading data.  The only thing you can really control download-wise is the total bandwidth.

[jlepthien]

Okay. Then maybe I entered to small Mbit/s in my shaper config? How do you test your actual download speed and what are the numbers you enter in the wizard? 10% less of your real bandwidth?

[danswartz]

I usually just put the supposed download speed, since it doesn't really matter that much (to me at least).  90% of usable speed seems reasonable.

[jlepthien]

No I tested again. I put in the supposed speed and raised qwanacks to 65% and qothersdownh to 70% started a torrent and a http download. Now the queues look like on the new screenshot. I get only some drops in my http traffic which is good, but still a lot in my p2p queue. Isn't this bad? But as you told me this is the only method to throttle the download speed?

Thanks guys…