I'm having some issues with the traffic shaper after switching to 1.2.2. Basically I was noticing that the RRD quality graph was showing pings of 1 second when there was a lot of bandwidth being used on the line. I don't remember seeing that issue when I was on the old version.
I started experimenting and found some issues. For a simple reproduction, I created a simple shaper rule using the wizard. Up and down was both set to 500 kbit (I have 6 mbit symmetric so this is easily satisfied). I also added a generic VOIP reserving 96 kbit. Now if I have a window open where I ping the first hop after the firewall, and in another window I start a fast download. The ping will quickly go to several seconds - then start timing out completely. Accessing the firewall to look at stats etc while the download runs is impossible. Questions: Why can't I create a shaper with the wizard without adding any special cases? What if I just want to limit everything to a fraction of the connection speed? Should the firewall access be limited along with everything else? Even with no rules for ICMP, shouldn't they be scheduled once in a while instead of timing out? Regards, -Jeppe
