Chapter 7: Traffic Shaping
This chapter presents the basics of traffic shaping and Quality of Service (QoS). You'll learn what the traffic shaper rules can do in OPNsense, how to create and apply QoS in a local network, and how to monitor and test it.
The following are the topics we'll explore in this chapter:
- Introduction to traffic shaping
- Possible scenarios
- Creating rules
- Monitoring
Technical requirements
To follow this chapter, we'll need an understanding of the TCP/IP network stack and how to manage filter rules in OPNSense's WebGUI. It is optional to have an OPNsense instance running with a host in a local network, but this is advisable in order to be able to test some of the steps presented in this chapter.
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