Re: Allways someone different

On 12/24/06, Peter May <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Yep there is always someone that has to do things unlike everyone else
> and I am that person.
>
> I live remotely and have looked at Pfsense for traffic shaping as I have
> a 2 way satellite feed. Here in Oz, its all I can get out back. Problem
> is, the feed isn't consistant. I am meant to have 256/64 but at the
> moment, its up to around 1.5mb/512
>
> So if I set my incoming and outgoing limits, it can effectively cause
> the traffic shaper to cut some of my bandwidth.

Some of the bandwidth you aren't paying for ;-P

> Is there a way to have PFSense detect THE TOTAL BEING USED and then
> alter QUEUES from that? What I am trying to achieve is a percentage for
> each queue depending on how much I have available coming in?

Nope.  Such a tool might be able to be written, but I'm not even sure
where I'd start if I was to do it.  Dynamic bandwidth detection and
modification would be significantly harder than detecting it to do the
initial bandwidth allocation.  And of course detecting that you have
more bandwidth available while running at lower capacity would be
uhhh...challenging.

> Trust me, at 256/64 its slow so anything more than that is very welcome
> but if I fail to check, Pfsense cuts it back. If I simply turn off the
> shaper, then some things hog all the bandwidth.

--Bill