Status->Queues Bandwidth wrong?
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So I've been playing with Traffic Shaping in the office with our new SG-4860 and I'm observing intermittent performance problems where the gateway can go into packet loss and then Offline (technically online but status reports it over I think 1 second gateway timeout).
During these times of intermittent traffic shaping hell, the Status–>Queues will show me something like this:
Interface WAN Bandwidth
Root Queue 340.83Mbps
qInternet 340.83Mbps
qACK 8.45Mbps
qDefault 304.01Mbps
qOthersHigh 28.22Mbps
qOthersLow 471 bps
qRDP 154.59KbpsInterface LAN
Root queue 291.31Mbps
qLink 12.57 Mbps
qInternet 278.73Mbps
qACK 1.22 Mbps
qOthersHigh 276.80 Mbps
qOthersLow 92 bps
qRDP 710.18 KbpsAny idea what's going on? These numbers should be impossible. Our business internet speed's are pretty horrible: 25Mbps down, 2Mbps up at the moment.
Edit: pfSense version is the latest, at 2.3.
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I got fed up with the same problem - it seems the web page can't keep up with the queue updates, and it backlogs something chronic.
Instead, try connecting to pfSense using PuTTY, and call the pfTop command: pftop -s1 -v queue. It updates a lot faster.
(reference: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#View_Queues_with_pfTop)Here's a pretty picture (attached). I have one WAN, two LANs, which is why the existing 5 Queues are repeated 3 times, once for each interface.
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I got fed up with the same problem - it seems the web page can't keep up with the queue updates, and it backlogs something chronic.
Instead, try connecting to pfSense using PuTTY, and call the pfTop command: pftop -s1 -v queue. It updates a lot faster.
(reference: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide#View_Queues_with_pfTop)Here's a pretty picture (attached). I have one WAN, two LANs, which is why the existing 5 Queues are repeated 3 times, once for each interface.
Yeah, I have never trusted the queue stats either.
FYI, you can view pftop via the GUI. Diagnostics->pfTop :)