On 2015-07-14 00:55, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
Hi
I found this [1] nice and quick howto which explains how to set up pfSense QoS
to obtain fair usage between clients, so that one will not suck all the
available bandwidth.
Has anyone tried it? is it working for you?
I made a quick check and doesn't really seem to, I started a download on my
laptop and then on the server and the latter was going nearly full speed,
leaving less than 100kB/s to my client.
[1] http://www.gridstorm.net/pfsense-traffic-limiting-fair-share/
I spent days tweaking, trying suggestions on the forums, IRC, etc.
Nothing came of it, I could never get any sort of QoS working to balance
traffic between users without allowing one user to starve out others, or
even to prioritize some traffic at the expense of others. Traffic would
seem to get into the right queue, but fire up an active torrent on a
clien tweaked for far too many connections and normal browsing traffic
from other machines was still quickly starved out.
I eventually gave up and just started limiting known problem-users, this
too proved to be unreliable as I would regularly see problem users
exceeding their limits very considerably, both upstream and downstream,
but it did help.
Ultimately we just brought in a second pipe from the ISP and now we
route high-bandwidth users to that pipe and let them fight it out
amongst themselves. That has worked quite reliably.
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Dave Warren
http://www.hireahit.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren
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