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    Quick question about limiters

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      askmyteapot
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      https://forum.netgate.com/post/832477
      See if setting it up that way helps at all.

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        maverick_slo
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        I want to have it set on WAN only... Now I have it on LANs and limiters are working OK. But I rather see limiter on WAN.

        The other thing that is bothering me is, why on LAN there is 80Mbit/s and on WAN after 3-5 minutes is 87 Mbit/s... It slowly rises from limited 80 to 90 Mbit/s.

        @jimp any idea why is that? pppoe maybe?

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          maverick_slo
          last edited by

          Can someone test if it behaves the same for you?
          Thanks!

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            w0w
            last edited by

            Steps to reproduce?

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              maverick_slo
              last edited by

              For limiters to sto traffic just set them up and apply floating rule on wan.

              For traffic difference start torrent client and wait up to 5 minutes and observe if wan goes above defined limit.

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                w0w @maverick_slo
                last edited by

                @maverick_slo
                Please provide more details for floating rule, applying on WAN, maybe screenshot is better?
                Thanks.

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                  maverick_slo
                  last edited by

                  OK, so like this:

                  Action: match
                  Quick: DO NOT tick
                  Direction: OUT
                  Protocol: ANY
                  Then in advanced:
                  Gateway: select your gateway
                  In / Out pipe: WAN_UP_Q / WAN_DOWN_Q (those are queues in limiters)

                  And thats about it.
                  If traffic stops you have the same probelm as I do if not you`re on 2.4.4 :)

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                    w0w @maverick_slo
                    last edited by w0w

                    @maverick_slo
                    Yes I can confirm. Traffic stops immediately. (2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
                    built on Mon Jul 29 17:15:22 EDT 2019 )
                    For the second one, I can tell that I have problems with limiters since 2.4.4 released, it's working but not as expected by me. I did not reported it, because I think my ISP changed something in the same time, I do not have bufferbloat anymore without limiters and I got it when enabled it once again.
                    Anyway I can test speed difference later this week.

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                      maverick_slo
                      last edited by

                      Ok cool, thanks. I did report it and when I use them on lan, direction in they work ok, but there is traffic difference. Maybe its expected but it only happens with torrents so far.

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                        w0w
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                        Ok, I used floating rule for LAN, direction in. What I see immediatelly is that internet slows down and I have C rating on dslreports.com for bufferbloat.
                        Tested with 5 porn torrents, after 20 minutes it's went over 150mbit. The limiter is set to 100.

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                          maverick_slo
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                          Yeah thats bad :(
                          But at least porn torrents will be DL-ed faster :)

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                            maverick_slo
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                            This is really annoying.

                            Why WAN differs so much comparing to LAN?
                            This is after 2 minutes of torrenting. Limited to 75 Mbit/s.

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                            And this one after 6 minutes.
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                            LAN stays at 75Mbit/s and WAN goes up to 85 Mbit/s.

                            Why?

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                              w0w
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                              I have physical interface ix0 where I have ISP LAN ("ISP_LAN") DHCP 172.x.x.x assigned and also PPPoE ( "WAN" external IP) over it. When I look at Status / Interfaces or Statistics on dashboard all looks recent, PPPoE (named WAN) have huge amount of traffic and ISP_LAN have none or a couple of kbytes. When I look at Status / Traffic Graph then both WAN and ISP_LAN are virtually same, but WAN shows IP addresses and ISP_LAN not.
                              I don't know is it "by design" or there is something broken.

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