[pfSense] High-latency when traffic reaches 80% wirespeed

2017-10-04 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list, I have become a huge fan of pfSense and managed to replace our old routers at work by two nifty Netgate SG-4860 gateways. They work nearly perfectly. I just have a few seperate internal VLANs (e.g. for administration, monitoring and backup) that give me a headache. Every day at the

Re: [pfSense] High-latency when traffic reaches 80% wirespeed

2017-10-05 Thread Christoph Haas
Am Mittwoch, den 04.10.2017, 15:05 -0400 schrieb ED Fochler: > I have a similar situation and I solved it with limiters.  I'm also a fan of > limiters to ensure fair sharing of uplink bandwidth by internal users.  I > haven't tried changing system tunables though, so that solution may be better.

Re: [pfSense] High-latency when traffic reaches 80% wirespeed

2017-10-05 Thread Christoph Haas
Am Mittwoch, den 04.10.2017, 19:13 + schrieb Steve Yates: > Christoph, if you are using CARP/HA for your two routers, see > https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4310 "Limiters + HA results in hangs on > secondary." Not yet but I'll look out to that. Thanks. > Alternatively if the overnight

[pfSense] Traffic shaping with varying bandwidth link?

2017-12-14 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list, the documentation reads that traffic shaping requires to know the total bandwidth of a link. In my case I'm on an LTE link because I live on the countryside. Sometimes the link delivers 5 Mbps - on good days I get 20 Mbps. Is there a way to use traffic shaping by prioritizing traffic?

[pfSense] Bug found: Remote Logging Options and IPv6

2018-02-06 Thread Christoph Haas
Dear list, I dare say that I have found a bug in version 2.4.2-RELEASE (amd64). When setting up syslog forwarding in the "Remote Logging Options" I can choose IPv6 as "IP Protocol" but when I save the field switches back to IPv4 and logging fails to the given IPv6 address. Should I report that