With all the stuff running on my system I sometimes get issues with limited bandwith, most tools have possibilities of limiting their bandwidth used but that is a very basic kind of setting.

 

There are traffic shaping utilities out there that limit bandwidth per used service without making individual settings.

 

This would make it possible to give priority to everything else above something like SABnzbd for example.

 

Does anyone have anything like this running on Unraid ?

It looks like "wondershaper" might do what I need without a lot of parameters and therefor possibly also suited as plugin.

 

Can someone confirm ?  I'll try to get it up.

Not needed anymore... For two reasons:

 

1) Traffic shaping on the unraid box would only shape the traffic FROM the unraid box (obviously), which is why I ended up wanting a proxy server on unraid also (Squid), this would make sure also my http traffic would originate from the unraid system and there could be part of the traffic shaping (and giving it major priority above nntp and .torrent);

 

2) I could not get it to work... :-)

 

I now ended up using a far better system, I have setup my secundary dd-wrt router (was only used to vpn into my network to control unraid) so that it sits totally in front of my internal network, then I have enabled Quality of Service in it setting .torrent and nntp as bulk traffic (getting rights to use all available bandwidth as long as noone else needs it), setting http to priority access so it will allways get priority over the rest. I have also set my iphone to have priority access based on MAC ..

 

Very happy with this, and it works !!

Performance is amazing since this setup... html is quick as hell and down and uploads no longer hamper my system...

I use a system called ClearOS as the gateway that sits in front of my network. It runs on a small Atom powered machine that has dual NIC. It will do QOS, supports gig speeds, has a DNS server, DHCP, multiple VPN services, and can host mail/web if I want. It can also filter traffic and do other things but I've not subscribed to get those features. The version I run won't do wireless as an AP but I think the current version is able to do so.

 

I have a DD-WRT also and it's running Tomato but I find that when heavily stressed with say torrents or other intensive traffic that causes many connections it freezes or performs poorly. After dealing with this for awhile I switched to my current setup.

 

I'll admit I'd like to try some other solutions on my little firewall box but I've not had time and taking down the existing solution is quite painful as I've become pretty reliant on it! There's a newer release of the code I run available even but I've not had good luck moving to it I yet and I didn't want my system down any longer while I tried to troubleshoot.

 

Anyway, check out ClearOS, and if anyone else has interesting firewall appliances out there I'd be interested in hearing about it. I'd really like someone with more IDS kinds of features and reporting capability if I were to change anything...

 

 

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