New Traffic Shaper - What works correctly or makes sense?
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As someone that is somewhat knowledgeable, but by no means a networking expert, I can agree with SNA about the wizard.
I know a bit about networking and how to set up queues and such, enough to do really well in 1.2.3. But the wizard in 2.0 is plain confusing, and over-complex. While many people that use pfSense are extremely well-versed in networking and such, there are also many that are not. When I first downloaded pfSense, I was really new, and read an article on how to put an old machine of mine to use ("Armor Your Palace" article). Since then I've come a long way and learned quite a bit.
The difference between the wizards is extreme enough that when seeing the one for 2.0, I just looked at it for a few minutes. Also there should not be more than one wizard. It should be one wizard that is able to deal with the different combinations. I would think (I'm not a coder so I'm guessing) that one wizard with SNA's idea would reduce coding (1 wizard instead of many), and IMHO would be much more intuitive and functional.