PfSense and Shaping Facebook – The Definitive Guide.
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Your point?
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Your point?
Did you read the entire topic? My point being the original limiting works 100% and does not create multiple 1MB pipes, but a single pipe. ALL FB traffic goes through the pipe and the 1MB pipe gets shared by all the FB ip's.
YOUR point? ;)
cyber7
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Except it doesn't. If what you're doing works for you, good on you.
It goes through a single pipe because it is post-NAT on WAN out, meaning a single source address, meaning a single pipe.
You are missing the ability for the limiter to try to share the available pipe among LAN users (the users you should care about) by using the child limiters.
But, again, if what you're doing works for you, have at it.
The user I was responding to asked how to exclude a single source IP.
Tell me how you are going to do that post-NAT on WAN out?
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Hi Derelict
Thanks for the extensive explanation! Please could I pick your brain a bit? (It will also help other users to understand when reading the topic)Are you saying that the big difference between my original writing and yours is that with yours you can manage the LAN IP's you want to limit, but with mine, you do it for the entire LAN?
I suppose if it is true, it is actually ok in my environment where I want to limit ALL FB traffic, not just for some users… BUT, the application of a 'child' limiter (in your example) has such potential for other technologies running away with your bandwidth. For example, Dropbox and any other "clouded" services.
My other headache is YOUTUBE (googlevideo) and limiting that traffic... I found a solution using squid, but that is beyond this subject matter.
kind regards
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Hi Derelict
Thanks for the extensive explanation! Please could I pick your brain a bit? (It will also help other users to understand when reading the topic)Are you saying that the big difference between my original writing and yours is that with yours you can manage the LAN IP's you want to limit, but with mine, you do it for the entire LAN?
It all depends on what your goals are. Post-NAT WAN out rules cannot see what the source IP is. That is quite a limiting factor in most cases.
I suppose if it is true, it is actually ok in my environment where I want to limit ALL FB traffic, not just for some users… BUT, the application of a 'child' limiter (in your example) has such potential for other technologies running away with your bandwidth. For example, Dropbox and any other "clouded" services.
Your stated goal is to limit facebook. The hardest part about that is identifying facebook traffic. Your rules won't do anything to limit dropbox either, since it's all on destination Facebook.
Limiters and child limiters work. The outlier is usually bittorrent. And that is usually because people put a WAN pass rule for their torrent port and don't set the limiter there too.
My other headache is YOUTUBE (googlevideo) and limiting that traffic… I found a solution using squid, but that is beyond this subject matter.
The hard part is identifying the traffic. Limiting identified traffic is pretty easy. I think most people who go down this rabbit hole are overthinking things. (Facebook bad, google, ok, googlevideo bad, cnn ok). Fuck it. Just limit/shape them all and make the internet work.
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The hard part is identifying the traffic. Limiting identified traffic is pretty easy. I think most people who go down this rabbit hole are overthinking things. (Facebook bad, google, ok, googlevideo bad, cnn ok). Fuck it. Just limit/shape them all and make the internet work.
HAHAHA! I like your attitude! I am starting to really think in this direction as well! I have set up limiters (1/2/3Mb/s). It works, but after I implemented your solution, I am looking at making this more "smove" :)
cyber7
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The hard part is identifying the traffic. Limiting identified traffic is pretty easy. I think most people who go down this rabbit hole are overthinking things. (Facebook bad, google, ok, googlevideo bad, cnn ok). Fuck it. Just limit/shape them all and make the internet work.
HAHAHA! I like your attitude! I am starting to really think in this direction as well! I have set up limiters (1/2/3Mb/s). It works, but after I implemented your solution, I am looking at making this more "smove" :)
cyber7
And you, Derelict, my dear sir ARE A GENIUS! Re-Wrote all my Limiters with your specs and WOW, soooo smove!
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