What you are describing is, as far as I know, not available within PFSense at 
present.
I know that stinks :-) 

There are products that do this -but they are very expensive - 
Internap for example makes the flow-control appliance -but beginning cost is 
over $30K i believe. 


Glenn Kelley, 
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On Oct 2, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Tim Korves <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> that would also be of very big interest to me. :-) Would be great, if this 
> would be possible in any way.
> 
> Regards, Tim
> 
> Am 01.10.2012 18:41, schrieb Noam Birnbaum:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Our colo facility bills based on the 95th percentile of traffic. As long as 
>> our total bandwidth usage, during 95% of the month, does not exceed our 
>> allotted cap, we don't get additional charges on our bill.
>> 
>> I'm at a loss for how to shape this in pfsense.  Our current bandwidth 
>> allotment is 25Mbps.  I could set LAN/WAN bandwidth to 20/5 respectively in 
>> Traffic Shaping, and that would ensure that we never exceed the allotment 
>> (we have much more inbound traffic than outbound).  However, that doesn't 
>> allow for variations in usage -- such as when a remote user needs to 
>> retrieve something large.  In this example, they would be capped at 5Mbps, 
>> when in fact perhaps at that moment our inbound traffic is quite low and we 
>> could spare them a full 20Mbps outbound without exceeding our cap.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> noam
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