Mastering pfSense - Second Edition

Limiters

Another option for traffic shaping in pfSense is using limiters. The Limiters option allows you to set up a series of dummynet pipes; dummynet is a FreeBSD traffic shaper that was designed to simulate different types of connections. Bandwidth and queue size limitations can be imposed, as well as scheduling and queue management policies and delay/loss emulation.

To set up a limiter, navigate to Firewall | Traffic Shaper, and click on the Limiters tab. If you have set up limiters previously, you will see a tree showing the different queues. Otherwise, the page will be mostly blank, but there will be a new limiter button on the left of the page. Click on this button to set up a new limiter.

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