Traffic shaping examples
In the section covering traffic shaping essentials, we discussed an example network with four subnets - developers, engineering, sales, and DMZ - as well as some basic traffic shaping requirements. Now, we will attempt to implement traffic shaping using pfSense in a manner that matches these requirements as closely as possible.
Example 1 – adding limiters
Although it is generally recommended that you use the traffic shaper wizards when getting started with traffic shaping, for this exercise we will avoid using them, since the rules the wizard will implement would require significant modification. We will begin by navigating to Firewall | Traffic Shaper and selecting the Limiters tab.
We require that developers and engineering receive 100 Mbps of downstream bandwidth, with 60 Mbps going to developers. We also will gives developers and engineering 25 Mbps of upstream bandwidth, with 15 Mbps going to developers. To do this, we will set up two limiters: a limiter for download...
