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18.1 Legacy Series / Traffic shaping backup/streaming traffic
« on: July 09, 2018, 09:50:23 pm »
Hi there OPNsense community
I am trying to set up traffic shaping to limit Dropbox (or other backup solution) bandwidth usage and prioritize Netflix (or other service) streaming. Both these services run on port 80/443, so using the port as a method for filtering the traffic into each queue is not working.
Is there another way of doing this? Surely, this must be a common problem and perhaps the single biggest reason to use traffic shaping?
I am now using rules to send VoIP traffic as highest priority (weight 100) and sending the bulk 80/443 traffic in a queue with weight 50. This ensures my skype calls are lag-free, but does not solve the lag free streaming when backing up data.
I am trying to set up traffic shaping to limit Dropbox (or other backup solution) bandwidth usage and prioritize Netflix (or other service) streaming. Both these services run on port 80/443, so using the port as a method for filtering the traffic into each queue is not working.
Is there another way of doing this? Surely, this must be a common problem and perhaps the single biggest reason to use traffic shaping?
I am now using rules to send VoIP traffic as highest priority (weight 100) and sending the bulk 80/443 traffic in a queue with weight 50. This ensures my skype calls are lag-free, but does not solve the lag free streaming when backing up data.