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My question is similar to traffic shaping but differs slightly in terms of what I want to achieve. Let us assume 1Gbps is max bandwidth for the interface.
Requirements:
1. Allow maximum bandwidth on egress or ingress if there is not much utilization on either one.
2. When both egress and ingress wants max utilization, then allocate bandwidth evenly between them.

A simple solution is to setup traffic shaper pipe one for egress and one for ingress with 500Gbps each. But that will limit max utilization to 500Gbps and not close to 1Gbps when only one of ingress or egress is bandwidth hungry , hence not satisfying requirement 1. Requirement 2 will be satisfied by this shaper though.

Any suggestions? Or is my understanding of traffic shaper pipe bandwidth incorrect?

Are there any commands in ipfw to view fq_codel statistics / usage?
1. I Want  to see number of active flows.
2. I want to see dropped statistics.
3. I want to see average/mean queue delay.

Any plugins/ ipfw cli commands to view this? Feel free to attach any useful links. I would like to read more if I have to figure this one out.

Is there any plug-in or 3rd party in opnsense to view dnsmasq dns queries. I'm using dnsmasq to do dns blacklist, and would like to view the stats like on pihole.
I tried the Netdata plugin. It appears to have to have a configuration for dnsmasq. But it is not working. Any help?

I have an Opnsense server running on a desktop. I would like to run a cloud server like Owcloud on the same desktop. Is this possible? are there any available plugins for open source cloud servers on Opnsense?