The best way to deal with this should be to set a very high "burst rate" on limiter/shaper rules. (I don`t know what is the maximum allowed time in PFsense), Let`s say for example 10 minutes, for the FTP/WEB server so when some user really needs to download a big file he will have 10 minutes at near-maximum speed (20Mbps) and only after this time-window limited at 5Mbps.
[]`s Seko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noam Birnbaum" <[email protected]> To: "pfSense support and discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 1:41:51 PM Subject: [pfSense] traffic shaping for 95th percentile 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 _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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