How To Solve pfsense Bufferbloat With A CodelQ / FQ_Codel Limiter in 2.4.4

okay so we're gonna talk real quick about buffer bloat if you're not familiar buffer below buffer bloat is based on the fact that I have a gigabit connection to my PF sense but I don't have a gigabit connection out of my PF sense and there's a lot of little components a lot of moving network data that may not align so you're trying to take a large gigabit connection at full rate of a low latency network and then squeeze it out across the internet a higher latency network that may not line up perfectly well good news is there's a solution for this and in pfSense 244 they've added FQ caudal it's an algorithm that does a great job of cutting down the buffer bloat and aligning the packets in a much better way and queuing them properly so everything happens in order now this is an important part about firewalls and in the earlier days of like the gaming the old blue box Linksys firewalls that were so popular I remember they would just fail because they couldn't handle the number of connections and they had a lot of problems with this and a lot of people see this as connections get faster you do have to update your hardware or update your firewalls to have algorithms to handle the volume of connections and cue the packets and a fair way to efficiently get them out of your network now I'm gonna leave a link here to those of you that want to know an in-depth look at how token bucket regulator z' work and how a first in first out queue works and how you have to regulate that mark did a great explainer video it's long but man it's a good education into cattle queue and how all these things work and I'm going to show you how to enable it really quickly here in pfsense because with 244 they made it really easy it's an easy limiter to use it's not part of the wizard so that's why I wanted to make a video on it you don't just next in West your way through this but this will help with your buffer blow problems so I'll leave a link to Mark's video it's a great dive into it so you have a better understanding of what's actually going on with there with the buffer bloat issues and how packet queuing occurs all right so my current buffer bloat is a C rating right now with nothing turned on in my firewall so no traffic shaping just basically a default setting pfSense I'm getting a C reading so we're gonna go over here pfSense 2 4 4 and I'm under firewalls traffic shaper and then limiters and we're gonna walk through the I will leave link the slides that Nikita has on exactly how to set up these limiters but I'm gonna walk you through it as well first box check and we're gonna start with a ran down one so when I don't believe spaces are allowed so this is land down and we're gonna set it at 60 because I have a 60 megabit connection so we say bandwidth bandwidth megabits 60 cool then myrna leave the mask at none description land down queue management algorithm this is the part where we choose coddled we choose a scheduler which we have the first-in first-out as default and we're gonna want to go ahead with fq coddle they also have some other ones in there if you want to experiment with them we have found that a thousand works for us that's the default suggested by negate you can change that I've seen someone mentioned in forums that it worked better for them at 2,000 or 3,000 because they had a much faster connection so you may have to adjust the queue length and this is how the queues are gonna line up refer to marks video to understand how cubes work but you can tweak these and you can go in and adjust this so now we've gone through and enabled called this one wind down no mask description wind down q type cattle fq cattle qlink 1000 and able explicit congestion notification checked these are blank save now we want to click on it again and we want to add a queue underneath this and this is gonna make sure we check the Enable box if you get to the firewall rules and you can't find this rule it's probably because you don't have this queue enabled I will note that it's an easy mistake to make because the default is lets you create queues but doesn't turn them on so this is the land down queue whoops I gotta spell down properly ran down queue Kadal queue length you can leave blank here the default seems to be working fine for me so now we have wind down and wind down queue now we're gonna get a new limiter enable land up so what's my upload speed 10 Meg land up same thing we're gonna go with Caudill we're gonna go with fq coddle queue length 1000 save click on the way up make sure we're in the right one add new queue under this and you guessed it land up land up queue description LAN caudal and leave hue length enable this save apply changes event safe so now I have a wind down wind down queue weighing up went up queue so it's ready now to create the rule so you've created the queues but they're not applied to anything and that's where we create a floating rule under the firewall rules so we over here to firewall rules floating add choose ran Direction out protocol any now if you're using ipv6 you can use both I'm only using ipv4 it also makes your applying it to any protocol because if you don't well it'll only do those protocols you can also extrapolate from this if you have some custom things you want to do and create a series of cues even based on per protocol that's a nice feature you can do in here but for brevity and for this setup we're doing here just getting Kyle cue running or doing it for all the protocols so protocol any everything else here is pretty much the same also apply the quick action immediately set this option apply action action to traffic they match measly this is gonna be C put it at the top of the rule set because you want this to apply to on top of all your rules not under them so we're gonna go here to advanced scroll on down in is going to be our ran up cue and out is our wind down hue that's important and follows you is it is flipped if you're really thinking about it but yes that's the way it should go and the last thing we want to make sure we do here is choose the win gateway as an option here here we are applying it to the gateway if you don't do that it won't apply properly we're gonna hit save and apply so now let's run the test again now this is my lab 1 so I'm actually doing this in production but I'll show you my production firewall here's what the rule looks like in my production firewall and I turned it on and off to do the test and there it's currently on again you can just disable this to turn it on or off and I'd run this test with it off and now let's run the same test with it on so we're gonna go ahead and reload the page test again and you can see I've been playing with it to do some testing here so we're gonna head and run this one more time with it on and we should see an A+ on my buffer bloat rating and away we go we went from a C to a all the way across pretty straightforward I'd actually gotten some of the results to be an A+ on this and what had happened previously when I got the A+ was no one else was here at the office when I was testing this morning so we got higher speeds right now everyone's here and our systems are doing lots of things so I know there's a lot of all my servers and connections and all the things we host here running on it so there's gonna be more packets in the queue so I guess I didn't get the A+ rating this time but this is all you have to do to get this to work it's pretty straightforward to set these limiters up it's really easy to do and you can kind of extrapolate from here not you understand how to set up a limiter if you want to create a series of limiters for different reasons or to limit different interfaces but this kind of gets you the idea this we did a floating rule and applied it to everything but you can get very fine-grained with this and you know really tweak it if you need to but this simple basic step right here will reduce the buffer bloat on top of there and maybe in the future I'll do some more videos about combining it with other traffic shaping but for the most part this this seems to solve the simplicity of it of just making it work and it works better than doing the wizard but just setting a limiter all right thanks thanks for watching if you like this video go ahead and click the thumbs up leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you liked and didn't like as well because we love hearing the feedback or if you just want to say thanks leave a comment if you wanted to be notified of new videos as they come out go ahead and to subscribe and the Bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested in notifications hopefully they send them as we've learned with YouTube anyways if you want to contract us for consulting services you go ahead and hit orange systems comm and you can reach out to us for all the projects that we can do and help you we work with a lot of small businesses IT companies even some large 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Channel: Lawrence Systems

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 26 2018