Traffic shaper changes [90% completed, please send money to complete bounty]

sai

@ermal:

click qVoip23 on the tree and than click"Add queue" button at the bottom of the form.

I though it was intuitive enough, no?!

:-)

I didnt get it. I get it now.

maybe change "Add queue" to "Add child queue" ?

eri--

Maybe but as i thought of it a queue is always a child of its parent and the tree assumes that too!

No?! (If no, then maybe i can make that change.)

djmizt

Hi Ermal,

I'm getting this error when I click on the wizard:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /usr/local/www/firewall_shaper_wizards.php on line 61

I had queueing enable prior to upgrading to this version but those are not showing now. Let me know. Thanks. The new interface looks very nice btw :)

heiko

You can try an update or just remove the line 61 it is just the title in there which was wrong or copy it from.

traffic_shaper_wizards.php, then it works. First you should try a recent update from ermals link. If this isn´t working, you can delete the line 61 manually as a workaround.

Greetings Heiko

djmizt

ok i commented line 61 on that file and I can use the wizard now;

I'm trying to do multiple wan/multiple LAN and everytime the wizard finishes I only have the shaper on the WAN interface ..my other interfaces (opt1,2,3) do not have any queues in them!

I tried manually adding queues on each interface and it's not doing it

I tried cloning the queues from WAN and no luck there either

Maybe I dont have the latest files?? Can Ermal pm me the lastest cvs file location again? Thanks.

SlickNetAaron

Hi all,

It looks like you guys have put some good time and effort into getting the traffic shaper what it needs to be. Hopefully this bounty is of value to me and I can throw in $50-100 for it.

It sounds like this is possible to do, but I just wanted to verify.

I have 1 wan (probably 2 in the future) on pfSense. It's about a 12/2meg connection.
LAN has a local router and also 2 access points. I would like to split/share the bandwidth amongst these 3 devices attached to the LAN. The trick here is that I need to have more than 2 layers of queues


wan > pf (10.0.0.1) > switch > AP1           > customer router1(10.5.x.1) (Linksys Tomato)
                                                            > customer router 2(10.5.x.1)

                                         > AP2          > customer router 3(10.6.x.1)
                                                               > etc(10.6.x.1)
                                         >local router  > Local PCs

Sorry that diagram isn't working well. Basically - the AP1, AP2 and local router are attached to pfSense by a switch. Then customer routers are static routed networks off of pf.

The caveat is that each AP is only capable of about 5-6mbps of total traffic. I would like to let customers share the full-speed of the bandwidth from the AP. Also, there may be some customers that would get less than an even share (penalty box per customer?)

At the same time, we obviously need to prioritize VoIP, http, DNS and set everything else to a lower priority.

So, I believe what I need to do is:
1. Ident traffic type (flags in new shaper?)
2. Setup multiple queues within queues?
a. WAN queues > b. queues for the individual APs (1 for the 10.5.xxx network and 1 for 10.6.xxx network) >
c. within the queues for the individual APs: queues or rules for traffic types (http, dns, etc)?
d. a way to limit individual customers (ie 10.5.3.x network gets limited to 512k but the rest of 10.5.xxxx gets to share the full bandwidth of the AP)

Does that make sense? Will the new shaper allow me to do this? I think it's just multiple layers of queues? I do have outbound traffic shaping on the customer routers so they can't saturate the AP. Customer routers inbound shaping is limited to dropping packets - I don't want to use that option on the customer routers.

Thanks for your input. I would love if I can throw in some cash to the pot and get access to the new shaper if it will work for me.

Regards,
Aaron

eri--

Yeah it can do multiple level of queues and all of what you describe.

SlickNetAaron

Great! Thank you! I just sent $75 to Chris.

@ermal:

Yeah it can do multiple level of queues and all of what you describe.

SlickNetAaron

So I guess I need to know how to access and install this. I will get a PM? This is an embedded install on ALIX.2C3

Regards,
Aaron

@SlickNetAaron:

Great! Thank you! I just sent $75 to Chris.

eri--

@SlickNetAaron:

So I guess I need to know how to access and install this. I will get a PM? This is an embedded install on ALIX.2C3

Regards,
Aaron

@SlickNetAaron:

Great! Thank you! I just sent $75 to Chris.

Yes, pretty soon.

NateDavis

If this is the place for tech support questions with the new shapper than great. Otherwise, please direct me where these should go.

I have been playing aorund with the new shapper and either I am really dense, and can't figure it out or I don't understand QoS Properly… Who Knows...

Anyway, I am trying to prioritize VoIP traffic. This traffic runs over my OpenVPN connection setup in the pfSense. I am having a real problem getting the traffic to register in the voip queue (using the wizard and then modifying the floating tab in rules). Is there anything special I am suppoed to do? I thought about trying to prioritize the openvpn traffic, but couldn't get that to work either. Everything just goes to the default queue.

This is an Avaya ip office setup. I have traffic being tagged with difserv- DSCP 46, DSCP Mask 63, and SIG DSCP as 0. I tried setting the diffserv in the floating rule to 46, but it still didn't put that traffic in the queue. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Nate

hoba

Shaping inside openvpn tunnels is not yet supported afaik, inside IPSEC should work though.

eri--

It is the default LAN rule that is botching it.
Just make it specific or create the rules for the in the LAN tab over the default one supplied by pfSense.
And please try disabling the antilockout rule.

With the new update things should be better(a matter of days since some issues have been fixed).

SlickNetAaron

Hi, I don't mean to be impatient. Just wondering when I may get access to the new shaper. I can wait for the new update if it is just a couple days.

Regards,
Aaron

@ermal:

With the new update things should be better(a matter of days since some issues have been fixed).

sullrich

Should be soon.

eri--

For all the bounty contributors.
In the same link as before will find the updated images with several problem fixed.

eri--

Get the one with the highest date on it. as -20080324 ;)

songus

Ill add 50 to the bounty, should i send them now? when will the image be available¿?

hoba

@songus:

Ill add 50 to the bounty, should i send them now? when will the image be available¿?

All bountysupporters get exclusive access to the testingimages and are welcome to testdrive and report back. All others will have to wait for now until there are official builds including the changes. Feel free to send the money in right now.

eri--

I explained it a page before:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2718.180.html

the queue wizard is really a work in progress. the first part is difficult to understand and has text labels in code style. the second part, the one with traffic type prioritization, is an heritage of the old shaper wizard but has no reason to exist, 'cause is not applied anywhere and there's no interface to edit. It seems that now the assignment of traffic type to queues is done within each firewall rule.

Well you do not need any interface to choose since it applies to all interfaces.
Read my explanation of the Floating Tab.

As for the names i will make them more friendly.

BTW, since you are a user what part of the first part you didn't understand?