Qos confusion.

Trym · Oct 31, 2010, 12:55 AM

I am thoroughly confused by the the traffic shaper in pfSense 2.0. I cannot get the wizards to work - at all. (No queues are created, ever.) I've read pages upon pages of different threads on the subject, and it all just becomes becomes a blur of TMI. Trying to do it manually, there are too many places to input bandwidths, and no clear instructions on which values should go where.

My goal is simple, I want to mimic the the setup I had on Tomato, which was shaping OUTBOUND traffic for the WAN-port only. I want to prioritize ACKs and DNS, and deprioritize p2p, other bulk-traffic and certain bandwidth-hungry clients, making HTTP as responsive as possible, but still give p2p full bandwidth if no other traffic is present. (I want to prioritize some other traffic to specific hosts and ports above HTTP as well.)

I planned to make this a long post about what I have tried so far, but now I actually just want to ask anyone who has an authoritative answer: Is the traffic shaper in PfSense 2.0 actually in a working state? (I found no mention of it under "known issues.")

::Trym

Kevin · Oct 31, 2010, 4:07 AM

I think some of the latest builds have issues (last week or so). I have inquired about some of the things I am seeing, but haven't gotten any response yet. I know it was working about 2 weeks ago as expected for me anyway.

dusan · Oct 31, 2010, 6:37 AM

I'm running Sun Oct 10 22:01:17 EDT 2010 snapshot. With 1 LAN + 4 WANs traffic shaping and policy-based routing, no PPPoE, the snapshot is quite stable.

It is a production environment with enterprise (neutral) policy. HTTP and P2P are allowed at full speed.

Trym · Oct 31, 2010, 8:53 PM

Thanks to both of you, this might explain a lot. I'll revert to an older build and try some things out, I'll report back in this thread in a few days.

::Trym