New to Traffic Shaping and Floating rules questions?
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Hello fellow Netgate members,
Can you help? I wanted to fix bufferbloat affecting Hulu on our Raspberry Pi the system kept doing a snap error on the browser. I researched and found while testing the bufferboat I had a F. I fixed it got it the testing into the A range and streaming video no longer has issues.However I am new to using traffic shaping and I have some questions still. Can you please help?
Image: Error I would receive before setting up traffic shaping with Hulu.Image: Final test of bufferbloat after setting up traffic shaping. Prior I had F until configuration was completed for traffic shaping.
Image: Floating rules for limiterQuestion 1:
Floating rules: Do these rules override the WAN Access Control Lists already in place on the interface? Example if I have a specific block will it also be blocked still?
Image: Tail DropQuestion 2:
For Codel use are we suppose to use tail drop or codel option?
Question 3:
If the limiter is already set up here do we also have to set up configuration for the interface on here?
Image: Interface for shaping config
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@jonathanlee Did you follow https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/codel-limiters.html ?
Floating rules are a bit different (https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/firewall/floating-rules.html#precautions-caveats). The above recipe does list to use a Pass rule instead of Match (https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/firewall/floating-rules.html#match-action). However since it is for traffic exiting WAN, I would guess they assume any blocks would have already happened on the LAN interface?
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@steveits yes i did just wanted to ask because of the any any rule however it is on the outbound