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    Traffic shaping - one WAN, two LANs

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      joke24
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      Hi,
      i'm totally in  pfsense and don't know how to setup the traffic shaping for my network.

      My setup is a WAN connection with 6Mbit/s and two LANs (guest+private).
      I want to setup the traffic shaper, my private LAN should always have the higher priority and should be able to use 90% of the WAN bandwidth every time.
      The guest-LAN should also be able to use 90% of the WAN bandwidth, but only when my private LAN is not using the WAN bandwidth.
      What kind of shaping thing is that?
      Is it PRIQ or CBQ?
      How should I start doing this?

      Thanks a lot for your help!

      Jonas

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        joke24
        last edited by

        any Idea?

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          Nullity
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          Currently, you cannot fairly share bandwidth between multiple interfaces. You could set one LAN interface with a bandwidth limit of 50% so that the other LAN will always have 50% available.

          You can accomplish your goal of fair sharing (meaning both interfaces can fully utilize all unused bandwidth) but you need to use two instances of pfSense or pfSense + a managed switch.

          Please correct any obvious misinformation in my posts.
          -Not a professional; an arrogant ignoramous.

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            pteek
            last edited by

            pfSense + a managed switch.

            How will this work?

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              Nullity
              last edited by

              @pteek:

              pfSense + a managed switch.

              How will this work?

              You can search for other posts on the topic. I have no actual experience in this area.

              I would assume that you would shape the traffic by IP/port on a single interface within pfSense, then the managed switch would split it off into the seperate LANs.

              Please correct any obvious misinformation in my posts.
              -Not a professional; an arrogant ignoramous.

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