New to pfsense, what are my options? Need help!
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You know what? Stick with Tomato… I don't see this thread getting anywhere near anything productive. Noone can debug your QoS attempts with unknown configuration. And frankly, while the horrible proxy thing is in place, you won't get any decent shaping at all using the traffic shaper. If you insist, play with stuff like Squid's delay pools or whatnot.
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You know what? Stick with Tomato… I don't see this thread getting anywhere near anything productive. Noone can debug your QoS attempts with unknown configuration.
What information would be needed to debug my QoS? I'd be happy to provide any information that would be helpful, screenshots of my configs, whatever.
I would be happy to stick with tomato but it can't do web caching or offer the level of parental controls which is what brought me to pfsense.
What steps would I need to take to setup pfsense behind my tomato router, and let tomato handle Gateway, DHCP, QoS and have the pfsense box handle Firewall/NAS/Proxy/Web Filtering/DNS, etc?
I was thinking something like this:
Internet –> Tomato Router (QoS/DHCP) --> Pfsense Box ---> Switch ---> LAN
And frankly, while the horrible proxy thing is in place, you won't get any decent shaping at all using the traffic shaper. If you insist, play with stuff like Squid's delay pools or whatnot.
Like I've stated several times now all my QoS testing was done with the proxy disabled, and now I am running with no packages installed and getting the same results.
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I'd dump whatever I didn't need. Squid would be at the top of my list.
Then I'd set up simple traffic shaping.
Try that.
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I'd dump whatever I didn't need. Squid would be at the top of my list.
Then I'd set up simple traffic shaping.
Try that.
I had squid disabled during all my QoS trial and error, as to not complicate things.
I have tried many many many different combinations of QoS settings with pfsense and none of them have lead to a useable internet connection… even with no other packages installed and only 1 device connected to the pfsense box which is connected directly into my internet connection.
Like I've stated several times now all my QoS testing was done with the proxy disabled, and now I am running with no packages installed and getting the same results.
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After abit of reading, I just noticed. No hardware specs.
What is this running on? CPU? RAM? Disk space? etc etc…
I can imagine, for instance that if your machine was running low on ram and was deep into swap usage things might get pretty laggy.
(So, by "disabled" you mean there is no squid installed on your system?)
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After abit of reading, I just noticed. No hardware specs.
What is this running on? CPU? RAM? Disk space? etc etc…
I can imagine, for instance that if your machine was running low on ram and was deep into swap usage things might get pretty laggy.
(So, by "disabled" you mean there is no squid installed on your system?)
Yes, by disabled I mean I removed all the packages related to squid to rule them out.
System stats:
Name pfSense.localdomain
Version 2.2.1-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Fri Mar 13 08:16:49 CDT 2015
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p6You are on the latest version.
Platform cdrom
CPU Type AMD Athlon
64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
Uptime 01 Hour 49 Minutes 45 Seconds
Current date/time
Wed Mar 25 21:58:31 UTC 2015
DNS server(s) 127.0.0.1
8.8.8.8
8.8.8.1
Last config change Wed Mar 25 21:08:01 UTC 2015
State table size
0% (126/303000)
Show states
MBUF Usage
1% (1270/189286)
Load average
0.00, 0.02, 0.00
CPU usage
(Updating in 10 seconds)
Memory usage
7% of 3036 MB
Disk usage
/ (cd9660): 100% of 223M
/tmp (ufs in RAM): 17% of 19M
/var (ufs in RAM): 61% of 31M
/etc (ufs in RAM): 42% of 19M
/usr (unionfs): 94% of 242M
/conf (ufs in RAM): 1% of 5.4M
/home (ufs in RAM): 0% of 5.4Mlast pid: 38297; load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 up 0+01:49:17 21:58:03
123 processes: 3 running, 99 sleeping, 21 waitingMem: 47M Active, 45M Inact, 173M Wired, 134M Buf, 2692M Free
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Oh, and I am running off the live CD at the moment… testing QoS setups with a clean install with no additional packages. When I was using squid it was running from a hard drive install on the 80GB SSD drive in the box.
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No idea. I wouldn't be testing a livecd though. Thats just me.
Keep banging away. It can be done.
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No idea. I wouldn't be testing a livecd though. Thats just me.
Keep banging away. It can be done.
I hear ya, I've been switching back and forth between the live cd and hd install to see if it made any differences… but nope.. same results either way.
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You will get some additional latency with shaping.
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You will get some additional latency with shaping.
Well with Tomato QoS I am able to get consistently under 100ms ping times even when the bandwidth is saturated… and voip / games / etc remains low latency and lag free. It took some learning to setup, but I had it up and running great in a couple of hours of tweaking and fine tuning and it has been working without a hitch for a couple of years now.
Ideally I'd like to setup the pfsense firewall between the tomato router (gateway) and the rest of my LAN (switch) and let tomato handle QoS/DHCP and let the pfsense box handle everything else (Proxy/Filtering/Firewall/NAS/DNS/OpenVPN) but I am not sure what steps to take to set this up and I am not having any luck finding information on how to make it work...
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That configuration is the opposite of ideal. Also, how are you measuring latency?