suggestion: BufferBloat wizard

[erickengelke]

BufferBloat is a common problem and OpnSense does have a combination of features which can help.

But configuring them is a slow exercise of meticulously copying things from one web page to another input screen, multiplying bandwidth by 85%..., etc. and can be fraught with user mistakes leading to more problems than when the user started.

This repetition doesn't make sense when many people have relatively simple home configurations.

My suggestion is to add a wizard which would prompt for ISP download/upload advertised speed and the correct ports, and run a script to create the approximate rules.  The user could obviously go back and fine tune the values, but it would probably give better results than the bare OpnSense configuration and make a lot of people happy.   

It could simply refuse to run if any of the existing Queue/Pipes/Rules have bufferbloat in their comment fields, so as not to mix multiple configurations.

Thanks for listening,
Erick

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Nice idea, best file a feature request on github.