How to Verify if Shaper is Disabled?
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Hi guys,
I recently upgraded my old DSL line (2k down, 0.3k uplink) to a cable line (25Mb/s down, 2.5Mbit/s uplink) and was wondering why the speed did not really increase.
After loads of digging I figured out the traffice shaper was still set to the old values and therefore limited traffic. I completely removed the shaper and created a new one with the current values but the downlink is still limited.
When I do a speedtest (wieistmeineip.de) it shows me 100% of uplink speed but still the 2k down as line speed. So it appears the traffic shaper still does some limiting.
How can I verify (on command line) if the traffic shaper is really completely disabled?
/KNEBB
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sir, I have a dumb question, is it working with its full speed without the pfsense box?
the only way (for me) is to totally remove "all" the shaper then test [considering I backup the shaper and restore later] and making sure 'states' is also reset and/or with a system reboot.
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As pfSense is my Internet access router I can obviously not test without it….
I could test tomorrow when I am in the office but I have to see how I can replace temporarly the pfSense box...I removed all the shaper settings from all queues. How Do I make sure the states are reset?
Currently I do not want to restart the box as I will losse connection then.
Greetings
Christian
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under 'diagnostics' -> 'states'
then there is a 'reset states' tab
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I did as suggested- even rebooted the pfSense firewall.
In WebGUI the traffic shaper appears to be disabled- but I have less download than uplink….
Isn't there a command line tool to verify settings?
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From the console, run
pfctl -s queue -v
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/root: pfctl -a queue -v /root:
Output is empty. Does this mean it is disabled?
Just downloading a 100MB file from the pfSense console with fetch:
]/root: fetch http://www.domain.de/file file 29% of 100 MB 84 kBps 11m40s
This is ways to slow!
I am trying to install a different router now for testing purposes allthough I am pretty sure this is a software issue at the pfSense one…
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Sorry, I misread the suggestion by KOM.
Here's the correct output:
[2.2.4-RELEASE][root@router2.knebb.de]/root: pfctl -s queue -v No queue in use
So it appears it is disabled correctly, right?
Going to do a fresh install and see what happens…
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If you have no queues then shaping is disabled. Confirm that you have no Floating rules to direct traffic into any queues. Your Status - Queues view should also be empty.
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I installed a pfSense instance from scratch by installing it through CD.iso. (is is virtual and runs on a VMware ESXi, so this is hassle free)
No configuration except the WAN/ LAN interfaces.
Same! Download max 2Mb/s- nearly the same as the uplink!
So I doubt it is a pfSense issue. Could confirm it is not by attaching a Win7 directly to the cable modem- speedtest showed same results.
So definetly not a pfSense issue.
Still on searching for the root cause together with the provider's support team.
Anyways, thanks for the ideas!
/KNEBB