<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Traffic Limiter on WAN interface and Floating Rule]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hi,</p>
<p dir="auto">As I have a shitty asymmetric DSL connection (5,6 Mbps down; 0,9 Mbps up), I tried to implement some bufferbloat mitigation with the Traffic Limiter and the fq_codel scheduler, as stated here.<br />
The problem with this method is that the rule is applied on the LAN interface. I want it to be applied on the WAN interface, as I have a second WAN interface with an LTE connection in failover, with totally different bandwidths.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is what I have done:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I created two limiters, "download" and "upload", set at 95 % of the max bandwidth.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I created the queues "out" and "in", respectively for the limiters "upload" and "download", without any mask.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I created a Floating Rule with settings linked on images below.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><a href="https://imgur.com/UTuR9RK" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://imgur.com/UTuR9RK</a><br />
<a href="https://imgur.com/iOmLCq2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://imgur.com/iOmLCq2</a><br />
<a href="https://imgur.com/CgOd85I" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://imgur.com/CgOd85I</a></p>
<p dir="auto">When the rule is applied on LAN, bufferbloat is really mitigated, and I get an A on dslreports test.<br />
When the rule is applied on my WAN via a floating rule, this happens depending of the in/out settings I changed:</p>
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<p dir="auto">nothing is mitigated;</p>
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<p dir="auto">upload is completely broken and blocked;</p>
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<p dir="auto">download speeds are at upload speeds.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I don't know what to do. I need your help guys.</p>
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