QoS/shaping Guide?

[sporkman]

Based on some forum searching, there used to be a wiki entry on the shaping/QoS but that link seems dead.

Since this is completely different from pfsense and there's no wizard, any pointers on how this works and how to configure?

My usual rules are pretty simple:

-prioritize icmp, dns, ssh, tcp ACKs, openvpn, IRC, jabber
-whatever magic the pfsense wizard applies for voip (port 5060 obviously, not sure what it's doing for the RTP streams, just using DSCP tags or something?)
-everything else is "normal"
-some things (BT, Usenet) get lower priority

Is this possible yet or wait for future releases?  Didn't see anything on the roadmap page.

[AdSchellevis]

We had a wiki page, but I think it wasn't good enough to be in our new docs pages, it will very likely be back improved later on.

Most of your use cases probably fit fine in our shaper, which uses ipfw/dummynet under the hood.

The basic concepts are as follows:

Define a pipe for the traffic you want to shape / prioritize, use queues to mark weight on different traffic groups and use rules to direct traffic either to a pipe or a queue.

The different UI parts include help on the properties you can set.

[Antaris]

Various predefined QoS templates in the traffic shaper are also good idea for a not very advanced user like me.