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    Traffic shaping on service running on Pfsense

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      zaza230
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      hi,

      If I have some internet services running on my pfsense box ( squid server, SMTP server, and FTP server ) would pfsense QOS be able to apply traffic shapping or priority queueing on these service.

      I read somewhere, opensource QOS can only handle traffic coming from other machines, not traffic coming from the machine where QOS is installed.

      if that is true it also mean that I need I dedicated machine to run only Pfsense.

      can someone confirm that.

      Thank for the creator of pfsense, this product is simply WONDERFUL.

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        stechnique
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        Well that seems logical, because pf will match the packets based on which interface they came from and which interface they left from. An packet coming from WAN to your FTP server would enter through WAN, but it won't leave. It probably won't be matched to any queue and avoid traffic shaping. Same for SMTP.
        I'm not too sure about Squid, because the packet does transit WAN->LAN or LAN->WAN, but since it's intercepted by Squid in the middle, it might not be matched by pf either for traffic shaping.
        Anyone else feel free to prove me wrong, I'm just guessing here from what I know about pf, hfsc, etc.

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