New to Traffic Shaping and Floating rules questions?

[JonathanLee]

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 limiter

Question 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 Drop

Question 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

[SteveITS]

@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?

[JonathanLee]

@steveits yes i did just wanted to ask because of the any any rule however it is on the outbound