Traffic shaper and gaming

[afern23]

I have traffic shaper set up on priq for both Wan and Lan interfaces and have queues for gaming, ack and deafult. Gaming has priorty 7 with nothing check marked except the last on, I believe it is Codel. Ack is at priority 6 with nothing check marked and default has only default check marked. i have firewall rule set up so that all the ports for the playstation 4 go into ack and game queue for tcp ports and game queue only for udp ports but for some reason all traffic works properly before a game of lets say call of duty by going into the game queue but when the game actually starts and we start playing, all traffic pretty goes into default. Can anyone explain this?

[roccor]

Afern, can you post your shaper config?

[afern23]

this is my traffic shaper config

shaper>
<queue><interface>wan</interface>
<name>wan</name>
<scheduler>PRIQ</scheduler>
<bandwidth>16</bandwidth>
<bandwidthtype>Mb</bandwidthtype>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<queue><name>qACK</name>
<interface>wan</interface>
<priority>6</priority>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<ecn>ecn</ecn></queue>
<queue><name>qDefault</name>
<interface>wan</interface>
<priority>5</priority>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<default>default</default></queue>
<queue><name>qGames</name>
<interface>wan</interface>
<priority>7</priority>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<codel>codel</codel></queue></queue>
<queue><interface>lan</interface>
<name>lan</name>
<scheduler>PRIQ</scheduler>
<bandwidth>60</bandwidth>
<bandwidthtype>Mb</bandwidthtype>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<queue><name>qLink</name>
<interface>lan</interface>
<qlimit>500</qlimit>
<priority>2</priority>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<default>on</default>
<ecn>on</ecn></queue>
<queue><name>qACK</name>
<interface>lan</interface>
<priority>6</priority>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<ecn>on</ecn></queue>
<queue><name>qGames</name>
<interface>lan</interface>
<priority>7</priority>
<enabled>on</enabled>
<codel>codel</codel></queue></queue>

[KOM]

A screenshot of your floating rules please.

[KOM]

Can you show a screen of the details of the first rule for Ps4?

[afern23]

okay so here is the allies for ps4

[afern23]

this is the first rule


[afern23]

this is the second rule


[afern23]

this a game port rule


[afern23]

also it shows this during packet capture

14:35:30.887057 IP 192.168.1.90 > 73.181.40.222: ICMP 192.168.1.90 udp port 3074 unreachable, length 36
14:35:31.385923 IP 180.10.151.134.3074 > 192.168.1.90.3074: UDP, length 6
14:35:31.386280 IP 192.168.1.90 > 180.10.151.134: ICMP 192.168.1.90 udp port 3074 unreachable, length 36
14:35:31.455092 IP 172.6.33.182.3074 > 192.168.1.90.3074: UDP, length 6
14:35:31.455461 IP 192.168.1.90 > 172.6.33.182: ICMP 192.168.1.90 udp port 3074 unreachable, length 36
14:35:31.527863 IP 68.230.60.78.41147 > 192.168.1.90.3074: UDP, length 6
14:35:31.528208 IP 192.168.1.90 > 68.230.60.78: ICMP 192.168.1.90 udp port 3074 unreachable, length 36
14:35:31.653851 IP 70.190.150.248.3074 > 192.168.1.90.3074: UDP, length 6
14:35:31.654157 IP 192.168.1.90 > 70.190.150.248: ICMP 192.168.1.90 udp port 3074 unreachable, length 36

why does it say that port 3074 is unreachable?

[KOM]

In your first floating rule, you have the Interface set to WAN and the Source set to a private IP space address.  This won't work unless your private network is on the outside of your router…  Unset WAN and leave it so that both WAN and LAN are unselected.  Change the Protocol from any to TCP/UDP, and then change your queue so that Ackqueue is set to qACK.  Make sure the ports are set to Any and not (other).  Edit your other Ps4 floating rule just like this.

Lastly, your PS4 is trying to send an ICMP (ping) packet to port 3074 at those IP addresses, and is being blocked for some reason.

[afern23]

Is this happening on my end? Is there a way to allow my ps4 ip icmp ping requests?

[KOM]

It looks like it's the receiving end that is blocking the packets.

[afern23]

Also should I keep the rules for the ports on Wan interface or should I have both Wan and Lan unselected

[afern23]

That's weird

[KOM]

I would unselect them.  That way the rule applies to either interface.

[afern23]

Should I keep port rules on wan or should I have both WaN and Lan unselected

[afern23]

Sorry for asking the same question twice. And okay thanks. I'll give these new settings a shot

[afern23]

So about the icmp ping requests. Is there anything I should do about this? Or does it even effect me at all in terms of latency and such for gaming. I still can't firgure out why on call of duty all the traffic goes to the game queue while in a lobby but when the match starts and up until the end of the match all traffic mainly goes through default. When I run packet capture the only ports being utilized is 3074 which I have a rule for that goes through game queue only since its mostly udp packets. Is there anything I could do about this?

[KOM]

I don't think there is anything you can do about it. If you haven't noticed any in-game issues or network gameplay features not working then I really wouldn't be concerned.  It may be as simple as a heartbeat check for game clients that are no longer there.