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    Bandwidth limit for each IP/Host on Pfsense 2.0 with Bridged Interface

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    • A
      alleksesp
      last edited by

      Hello folks, I am here to ask you for your help to my problems.

      I have this next scenario and I need to limit the bandwidth for my servers on a bridged interface. Here it goes

      
                               |LAN| ----> Laptop
      
      ~~~~~              
      ~iNet~   ----->   |WAN|
      ~~~~~                  || -->Bridge DMZ to WAN
                               |DMZ|----
                                            |
                         ------------------------------------
                         |                       |                    |
                      ---------         ----------        -----------    ....
                      Server1       Server2            Server3
      
      

      So, having that representation now I ask you:
      How could I limit traffic for each and 1 of my servers (upload and download)?

      I've been trying to do it following this tutorial, but with no success.
      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=28002.0

      I have also read this message that got me even more confused
      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,1384.msg8196.html#msg8196

      So please help me understand all this Traffic Shaping.

      Thank you

      Edit:
      An image representing my structure

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        alleksesp
        last edited by

        Forgot to mention that my version is:

        2.0-RC1 (amd64)
        built on Sat Feb 26 18:07:23 EST 2011

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        • A
          alleksesp
          last edited by

          no1 nada?

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            It's all explained in those other threads. Limiters are what you need to do this.

            http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#Limiter

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              alleksesp
              last edited by

              @jimp:

              It's all explained in those other threads. Limiters are what you need to do this.

              http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#Limiter

              Ok, that is where I get to… I have understood that Limiters will give me what I need, I have been trying/testing it but with no success. What I need is a guide of how to apply them. I just want some guidances, no matter if is a 500 pages book or whatever.

              Hope some1 could guide me through this so I can understand better how to work with it.

              Tnx,
              Alex

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                alleksesp
                last edited by

                Ok please ignore my last message. I've "read" or better said "overlooked" the http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#Limiter for N times, but never like this last time. Until now I was just looking for keywords in that document for what I needed, and didn't read the exact document word by word to fully understand how Limiter works.

                I recommend to any1 that will read this, to read again and this time read it not jump from a word to another… so you can understand how Limiter works and how to apply it.

                Tnx, jimp.

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                • A
                  alleksesp
                  last edited by

                  But I do still have a question.

                  Having in mind that I trying to limit In and Out traffic by Machine/Host/Ip/Server and that

                  • I have a bridged DMZ to WAN

                  • I have rules filtering anything from wan to my servers, I mean all traffic is filtered from the internet to my servers

                  • I have rules filtering anything going from my servers to the internet

                  Where exactly should I apply my In/Out rule for my server and in which order? Should it be before any other rules applied to a specific order, or it does not matter?

                  Thank you,
                  Alex

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                  • J
                    joelserrano
                    last edited by

                    Hi,

                    I think you should use floating rules for this.

                    They apply before interface specific rules.

                    Regards,

                    Joel.

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