Total noob requires assistance. Big surprise.
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so i've been lurking for a month or so now and have my new build up and running. so far so good.
very simple home setup. wan/lan only. 200 down 20 up connection.
just need a little help with my traffic shaping queues. everything is still going to the default queues.
i'm only concerned with the upload for now.
all i need is for the machine running my torrents to go into a low priority priq and the machine running my plex server for remote clients to go into a high priorty priq. everything else can go into the defaults.
ran the traffic shaper wizard, changed wan and lan to priq and added 2 new queues for each interface.
the problem is i can't seem to get anything to go into the queues after setting up the firewall rules.
trying to get the torrentbox setup first.
here's a bunch of pictures. i'm sure i'm missing something obvious but, that's what noobs do.
traffic shaper
floating rules
rule details
wan rules, just a simple port forward here.
and here are the empty queues :(
any help at all would be much appreciated.
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I think that by the time that traffic is "outgoing WAN", it has bern NATted, so the source will now be your external IP.
Anyway, just to simplify, I would avoid floating rules unless you explicitly need them. So, setup the firewall rule on the lan interface to catch the torrent traffic and assign the traffic to the appropriate WAN queue.
Disclaimer: My brain is off until next year. Errors posdible,
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Take the source out and just choose the WAN interface and then put in the ports. The way floating rules work is that when a rule is matched to traffic coming in on an interface , it will make an inverse rule on the outgoing interface. Only use Source or destination when using LAN or WAN rules.
Otherwise just use LAN or WAN interface rules.
So your floating rule would be :
1. Match / Interface WAN / Direction ANY / IPv4 / TCP/UDP / Destination any / Ports - Put ports here.
Or
LAN Rule
1. Source - Littleboy / Any port / Any protocol / Any destination (if Littleboy is on the LAN side) / Choose the Torrent Queue with qACK.
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thanks guys. moving the rules to the lan did the trick. ;D