Playing with fq_codel in 2.4
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By default, fq_codel uses ECN.
This often doesn't work properly for upload so you may need to try without it. For my config this meant using:
ipfw sched 1 config pipe 1 type fq_codel ecn && ipfw sched 2 config pipe 2 type fq_codel noecn
Swap ecn/noecn as needed depending on the order you created the limiters in.
I know what are you talking about.
https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Best_practices_for_benchmarking_Codel_and_FQ_Codel/
But FQ_CODEL revision was updated several times since this article was published and no official remarks about ECN and recommended settings in docs.
I have read a lot and played a bit with ECN option, but in my case it have no effect directly. If anybody suggest some simple way to test ECN I will be much thankful. -
@w0w:
By default, fq_codel uses ECN.
This often doesn't work properly for upload so you may need to try without it. For my config this meant using:
ipfw sched 1 config pipe 1 type fq_codel ecn && ipfw sched 2 config pipe 2 type fq_codel noecn
Swap ecn/noecn as needed depending on the order you created the limiters in.
I know what are you talking about.
https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Best_practices_for_benchmarking_Codel_and_FQ_Codel/
But FQ_CODEL revision was updated several times since this article was published and no official remarks about ECN and recommended settings in docs.
I have read a lot and played a bit with ECN option, but in my case it have no effect directly. If anybody suggest some simple way to test ECN I will be much thankful.You can use tcpdump to see whether ECN has been negotiated/used, then run downloads & uploads with ECN disabled/enabled to see if there's any difference in speeds and/or latencies.
For me, it improved download (or was it upload? or both?) speeds by a few percent but over a few days of using ECN (Linux client /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn = 1) had a couple of sites completely fail to work so I set tcp_ecn back to it's default (2).
Whether your pfSense router supports ECN is a separate condition from your client supporting it, so make sure to configure it appropriately on both.
I only played with ECN very quickly so take my input with a grain of salt… ;)
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For me, it improved download (or was it upload? or both?) speeds by a few percent but over a few days of using ECN (Linux client /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn = 1) had a couple of sites completely fail to work so I set tcp_ecn back to it's default (2).Whether your pfSense router supports ECN is a separate condition from your client supporting it, so make sure to configure it appropriately on both.
I only played with ECN very quickly so take my input with a grain of salt... ;)
Do you remember URLs of sites failed to work with ECN?
I've seen some reports like "Measuring the State of ECN Readiness in Servers, Clients" and others too, all of them stated that there is some % of servers that have wrongly configured ECN and this is the real problem, even if percentage of those servers lowered over years, but the real quantity raised up, so the simplest way is to test ECN enabled FQ_CODEL against some of those " ECN-failed" sites. -
Setting my bandwidth to 95% of my always results in about 20mb off of my total bandwidth in tests. It seems that to use this you have to take a bandwidth hit….
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I have a 150Mb connection, I set my bandwidth to 99%, or 148.5Mb, and I get about 147.8Mb/s with speed tests. If you're losing more than a small faction of a percentage, it's because something is misconfigured, low quality network equipment, or you're dealing with very small amounts of bandwidth where dropping a single packet results in a sizable bandwidth difference.
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I have a 150Mb connection, I set my bandwidth to 99%, or 148.5Mb, and I get about 147.8Mb/s with speed tests. If you're losing more than a small faction of a percentage, it's because something is misconfigured, low quality network equipment, or you're dealing with very small amounts of bandwidth where dropping a single packet results in a sizable bandwidth difference.
This is my experience as well. Only when I was beginning my traffic-shaping journey did I experience strange things like that. My assumption is that I was misconfiguring.
I suppose it's possible that these algorithms incorrectly calculate bitrates but that is very unlikely since transmitting at the configured bitrate is perhaps the most fundamental aspect of any traffic-shaping algorithm.
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I have a 150Mb connection, I set my bandwidth to 99%, or 148.5Mb, and I get about 147.8Mb/s with speed tests. If you're losing more than a small faction of a percentage, it's because something is misconfigured, low quality network equipment, or you're dealing with very small amounts of bandwidth where dropping a single packet results in a sizable bandwidth difference.
I also have 150mb connection and am running an i5 mini PC with PFsense. It seems like a simple configuration so I'm not sure what could actually be misconfigured but I'm not ruling it out. Any ideas?
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I have a 150Mb connection, I set my bandwidth to 99%, or 148.5Mb, and I get about 147.8Mb/s with speed tests. If you're losing more than a small faction of a percentage, it's because something is misconfigured, low quality network equipment, or you're dealing with very small amounts of bandwidth where dropping a single packet results in a sizable bandwidth difference.
Full disclosure, I am running a VPN, but it pins at 147mb no matter what….until this config.
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HeatmiserNYC
So, with FQ_CODEL you have 130Mbps max, right? You said -20Mbps…
The misconfiguration can be interference with other limiters or rules if you have used same limiter twice or more — I did not checked but it was possible in certain conditions.
Also TS mentioned that this FQ_CODEL setup equalizes traffic and with VPN it can be a real problem if you have concurrent or even the same traffic on both.
Anyway, I did tests some time ago and there was 1-2 Mbps difference with bandwidth limit, if we compare to traditional HFSC this is about twice less. Now I don't use bandwidth limit but delay limit that is set to 0ms, this causes FQ_CODEL scheduler to process all traffic by using only internal parameters, I think. Double check everything and if problem persists, please provide some configuration sample. -
Cool, thanks for replying.
Yes, I get about 125-130 down when I set my limiter to 143mb (95%). My connection without the limiter will tend to burst initially to a bit over 200mb according to testmy.net. I have a simple setup following the guide detailed in the first post.
I use the VPN for all outbound traffic, it's not a separate situation.
I have tried traffic shaping before and this has been true for any configuration I have ever tried. If I try to shape close to my line speed it takes about 20mb off the top. How do you not use a bandwidth limit? Adding a delay limit in the field doesn't take.
Just need a successful example of this to get running…
Again, thanks.
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Cool, thanks for replying.
Yes, I get about 125-130 down when I set my limiter to 143mb (95%). My connection without the limiter will tend to burst initially to a bit over 200mb according to testmy.net. I have a simple setup following the guide detailed in the first post.
I use the VPN for all outbound traffic, it's not a separate situation.
I have tried traffic shaping before and this has been true for any configuration I have ever tried. If I try to shape close to my line speed it takes about 20mb off the top. How do you not use a bandwidth limit? Adding a delay limit in the field doesn't take.
Just need a successful example of this to get running…
Again, thanks.
Perhaps your speed drop is related to overhead like VPN, TCP, etc. I assume you are referring to goodput bitrates?
On downloads you will commonly see below the configured bitrate because each time you hit the limit pfSense will tell the sender to slow down below the limit. Personally, I found very little useful benefit by limiting downloads because my ISP has minimal bufferbloat and allowing them to do the rate-limiting gives me 100% speeds.
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What about to try to move shaper/limiters from LAN side to VPN side firewall rules?
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That's an idea, I'll give that a shot!
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Yea, that didn't work.
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Just for testing purpose, try to change bw limiting to delay limiting :
pipe 1 config delay 0ms
for both pipes
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Sorry gone for a few days, vacation.
I gave that a shot by changing the /tmp file, it doesn't seem to have an affect. I am only changing the /tmp file, maybe it needs to be rebooted and hardcoded into the file? The only reason I haven't done this is because I haven't seen the results everybody is reporting…
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Yes it's need to be rebooted or reloaded with```
/etc/rc.reload_allAfter you did that run the following command``` ipfw sched show ```and you should see something like``` 00001: unlimited 0 ms burst 0 ```for the both pipes you have.
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@w0w:
Yes it's need to be rebooted or reloaded with```
/etc/rc.reload_allAfter you did that run the following command``` ipfw sched show ```and you should see something like``` 00001: unlimited 0 ms burst 0 ```for the both pipes you have.
Yes, all relatively simple and you've been great at walking through the steps you put in place.
I'm getting this for both pipes.
00003: unlimited 0 ms burst 0
00004: unlimited 0 ms burst 0
Yet I can't get better than a B rating for bufferbloat, which is the same if I literally do nothing at all….
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But what about VPN bandwidth? Are you still getting 120Mbps?
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That part HAS improved, looks like it does get about 145-ish or so which is about right. It just does nothing for bufferbloat.
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Can you post the full output of```
ipfw sched show -
I'd like to look at implementing this, but I was wondering
Anyone know the status of pfsync + limiters?
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I'd like to look at implementing this, but I was wondering
Anyone know the status of pfsync + limiters?
What was the last status you know? :D
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The last status I know is that the pfsense book says not to use pfsync and limiters together, but doesn't explain why
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The last status I know is that the pfsense book says not to use pfsync and limiters together, but doesn't explain why
This is actual. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4310 have 0% progress.
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@w0w:
The last status I know is that the pfsense book says not to use pfsync and limiters together, but doesn't explain why
This is actual. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4310 have 0% progress.
D=
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Is there any chance fq_codel will make it into the 2.4 GUI in limiters?
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Definitely not!
They are keeping eyes on it, but currently no plans, no moves, AFAIK. -
Darn. I'm thinking about switching back to pfSense but I really want fq_codel.
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fq_codel, the ZFS of AQMs, or nearly. Cake aims to be the "ZFS", but close enough.
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Is the command of "ipfw sched 1 config pipe 1 type fq_codel && ipfw sched 2 config pipe 2 type fq_codel" the same if I only have 2 root limiters? Both of them are root limiters one has a mask of source and the other has a mask of destination.
I would like to try this out but wondering if the command is different for just root limiters without "child" queues. Obviously I am highly dependent on the gui I am a bit confused with the ipfw command since it references both sched and pipe.
Thanks for any reply!
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TS sample is for the root limiters also, if you have some troubles understanding, post the content of your /tmp/rules.limiter
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here is the content of my /tmp/rules.limiter
pipe 1 config bw 100Mb mask dst-ip6 /128 dst-ip 0xffffffff
pipe 2 config bw 10Mb mask src-ip6 /128 src-ip 0xffffffff
I need help with the ipfw command to enable fq_codel on pipes 1 and 2 because i don't have any child queues.
thanks in advance
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According to documentation posted in this thread you need to configure sheduler at least to make things work.
pipe 1 config bw 100Mb mask dst-ip6 /128 dst-ip 0xffffffff sched 1 config pipe 1 type fq_codel pipe 2 config bw 10Mb mask src-ip6 /128 src-ip 0xffffffff sched 2 config pipe 2 type fq_codel
EDIT:
Tested, it will not work. You need to configure child queues and use them in ruleset, exactly as described by TS. Default automatically created pipe queue always uses FIFO sheduler and I am not sure it is possible to change this.So after changes made in GUI also, you must edit and create your own rules.limiter that should look like this.
pipe 1 config bw 100Mb sched 1 config pipe 1 type fq_codel queue 1 config pipe 1 mask dst-ip6 /128 dst-ip 0xffffffff pipe 2 config bw 10Mb mask sched 2 config pipe 2 type fq_codel queue 2 config pipe 2 mask src-ip6 /128 src-ip 0xffffffff
So the right answer is no you can not shape with fq_codel using only root limiters.
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Thats really too bad. We use PFsense primarily to "specify bandwidth limits per host." for a small ISP.
I really wish I could find a way to limit a subnet to say 100Mbs and then limit each ip host address in the subnet to 5 Mbs. And then have each IP address dynamically shaped if the overall link was approaching the 100Mbs total.
Is it possible to combine and use ALTQ and Dummynet at the same time? Has anyone tried that or have a config example?
I guess I could use limiters on 2 PFsense boxes. First one limiting each host to 5 Mbps using limiters with a destination/source mask. And the second limiting the entire subnet to 100Mbs using limiters without a mask and changing the type from WF2Q+ to FQ_Codel by issuing the command "ipfw pipe 1 config bw 100Mb type fq_codel"
I hope thats not too confusing. Anyone have a more eloquent way of trying this?
As always, thank you for any reply.
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Yes it's possible, but you will have some overheads and losses, you can try it at least, I think. Just set your per host limits on ALTQ shaper side and do your evenly shared FQ_CODEL enabled limiters exactly as TS described for you entire subnet.
I am sure it is possible to build ipfw only shaper model that works like you want it to work, but it would be complicated not only with pfSense and can cause some errors on pfSense. -
Got this setup! Thank you so much! I have been waiting for a way to run FQ_Codel on my pfsense box for a while now. Granted it had to be hacked on but it worked!
Has anyone been running Suricata with 2.4 and fq_codel? Until I removed the suricata package my connection would keep dropping and I had lots of issues. So far so good.
I also had to enable Hardware checksum offloading and TCP Segmentation offloading. I may have to re-enable these at some point but at the moment everything is going well.
My last speed test.
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Got this setup! Thank you so much! I have been waiting for a way to run FQ_Codel on my pfsense box for a while now. Granted it had to be hacked on but it worked!
Has anyone been running Suricata with 2.4 and fq_codel? Until I removed the suricata package my connection would keep dropping and I had lots of issues. So far so good.
I also had to enable Hardware checksum offloading and TCP Segmentation offloading. I may have to re-enable these at some point but at the moment everything is going well.
My last speed test.
enable re-enable or disable re-enable or enable re-disable or .. ?
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fq_codel, the ZFS of AQMs, or nearly. Cake aims to be the "ZFS", but close enough.
This is very interesting.
Any chance someone(s) knowledgeable would be willing to put together a single post along the lines of this - https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=126597.0
Kind of like an fq_codel one-stop shop for the layman?
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ok am finally testing this and got it working.
I had observed some iptv/vpn issues that seemed to only occur when my ingress altq config was active, so am now testing this configuration. I have not yet tested if this is as effective as hsfc alt for keeping steam downloads in check, I had to set the dummynet limiter to 95% of downstream cap to even get a 6 threaded downstream test to stop causing packetloss, so not confident that will be enough for a 30+ stream steam download but will see.
How granular is this? can I e.g. route steam etc. all through it but at the same time applying a limit less than 95% for steam download whilst keeping things like youtube able to burst higher. All on dummynet. As I have a feeling I will need to drop this to at least 90% to manage steam but I consider that too low for lighter threaded stuff.