VLAN strong priority

tobiascapin · Apr 29, 2015, 4:05 PM

Hello everybody,
I have simple question, I would like to understand if Traffic Shaping is the correct choice to manage my network.

I have two VLAN in my network, a comany LAN (VLAN1) and a Guest LAN (VLAN2).
I want to prioritize my company LAN and WAN (es. input requests) instead of Guest LAN. If there is not any needs by company LAN I don't care about "spend" bandwith for guests, however I want the maximum bandwith dedicated to company or wan if there are any needs.
In other words I want to give bandwith to Guests only if it will not be used.
Is is possibile?

Thanks

Mr. Jingles · Apr 29, 2015, 5:52 PM

I would guess that works, as that is exactly how I have traffic shaper setup (well, actually, WIFE did, as I couldn't get it to work and she did it in 10 minutes with two fingers in her nose –- but then again she is a RA and I am only a stupid economist ;D ).

The only difference being: we use IP's in the same LAN, and so that gets prioritized. But since it's IP, my guess would be for VLAN's, being IP-ranges too, it will work too.

Then again: I'm sure I'm getting my butt kicked shortly for spreading misinformation ;D ;D ;D

fsSnowboard · May 22, 2015, 12:42 AM

I am not an expert in shaping, but from my reading and getting things figured out you can't prioritize between interfaces. Since each VLAN is assigned to an interface they are separate. I have a similar setup, and I just carved out 4Mbps for the guest VLAN and then left the main VLAN as 15Mbps. We have a symmetrical 20Mbps fiber connection.

I found a thread somewhere that mentioned you could put another pfSense firewall in front of your current one, and then shape the traffic with that second one and prioritize that way.

tobiascapin · Jun 9, 2015, 8:40 AM

Oh my god… I cannot prioritize interface consumption? ???
I just try the traffic shaper, and the result is not very cheering, I'm tring a 1GB download from GUEST interface and the same from COMPANY interface, and the result is the SAME bandwith from both... this is exactly what I don't want.

It there a good guide for newby for traffic shaper, the official one is very poor.

Thanks

Harvy66 · Jun 11, 2015, 2:30 AM

You can prioritize traffic leaving an interface, but you cannot make interfaces work together and prioritize among interfaces.