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0answers
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How to share bandwidth equitably between 16 users on a pfsense multi-WAN router

I have 16 users connected to my pfSense single-LAN, 3-WAN router. The 3 WAN ports connect to ADSL lines giving about 4Mb/s down, 800kb/s up each. I would like to prevent any one user hogging the ...
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2answers
299 views

Bridge NICs with automatic pass-through

I am looking at using a computer with a dual-NIC card (one with two NIC ports) as an in-line traffic shaper / URL filter / traffic analyzer, etc. (probably using pfSense), but I am concerned that if ...
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1answer
462 views

How to choose an open source, Asterisk friendly firewall?

I'm in pain. We are moving to a SIP based VOIP system and for whatever reason, we could not get our hosted Asterisk solution to work with our Sonicwall. Our VOIP provider gave up and is recommending ...
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2answers
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Traffic shaping HTTP downloads with l7-filter

Given the following: A small, remote office has only a few users and a 1.5 Mbps DSL connection via a ZyXEL 660R. Users experience unacceptable latency and packet loss when even one large file is ...
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683 views

pfsense 2.0 traffic priority - set full priority for single host

I have a network with several computers all on the same network and since I have very limited bandwidth I would like to prioritize traffic almost like a CPU scheduler prioritize processes. Example: ...
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5answers
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How should I set up a gateway to restrict internet traffic in a college dorm?

OK, like all college IT departments, we've been battling P2P abuse and trying to figure out how to effectively mitigate it's impact on our network infrastructure.... And then we find out TODAY that ...