How to Verify if Shaper is Disabled?

A Former User

Hi guys,

I recently upgraded my old DSL line (2k down, 0.3k uplink) to a cable line (25Mb/s down, 2.5Mbit/s uplink) and was wondering why the speed did not really increase.

After loads of digging I figured out the traffice shaper was still set to the old values and therefore limited traffic. I completely removed the shaper and created a new one with the current values but the downlink is still limited.

When I do a speedtest (wieistmeineip.de) it shows me 100% of uplink speed but still the 2k down as line speed. So it appears the traffic shaper still does some limiting.

How can I verify (on command line) if the traffic shaper is really completely disabled?

/KNEBB

gratis.obake

sir, I have a dumb question, is it working with its full speed without the pfsense box?

the only way (for me) is to totally remove "all" the shaper then test [considering I backup the shaper and restore later] and making sure 'states' is also reset and/or with a system reboot.

A Former User

As pfSense is my Internet access router I can obviously not test without it….
I could test tomorrow when I am in the office but I have to see how I can replace temporarly the pfSense box...

I removed all the shaper settings from all queues. How Do I make sure the states are reset?

Currently I do not want to restart the box as I will losse connection then.

Greetings

Christian

gratis.obake

under 'diagnostics' -> 'states'

then there is a 'reset states' tab

A Former User

I did as suggested- even rebooted the pfSense firewall.

In WebGUI the traffic shaper appears to be disabled- but I have less download than uplink….

Isn't there a command line tool to verify settings?

KOM

From the console, run

pfctl -s queue -v

A Former User

/root: pfctl -a queue -v
/root:

Output is empty. Does this mean it is disabled?

Just downloading a 100MB file from the pfSense console with fetch:


]/root: fetch http://www.domain.de/file
file                                           29% of  100 MB   84 kBps 11m40s

This is ways to slow!

I am trying to install a different router now for testing purposes allthough I am pretty sure this is a software issue at the pfSense one…

A Former User

Sorry, I misread the suggestion by KOM.

Here's the correct output:


[2.2.4-RELEASE][root@router2.knebb.de]/root: pfctl -s queue -v
No queue in use

So it appears it is disabled correctly, right?

Going to do a fresh install and see what happens…

KOM

If you have no queues then shaping is disabled. Confirm that you have no Floating rules to direct traffic into any queues. Your Status - Queues view should also be empty.

A Former User

I installed a pfSense instance from scratch by installing it through CD.iso. (is is virtual and runs on a VMware ESXi, so this is hassle free)

No configuration except the WAN/ LAN interfaces.

Same! Download max 2Mb/s- nearly the same as the uplink!

So I doubt it is a pfSense issue. Could confirm it is not by attaching a Win7 directly to the cable modem- speedtest showed same results.

So definetly not a pfSense issue.

Still on searching for the root cause together with the provider's support team.

Anyways, thanks for the ideas!

/KNEBB