Hi Alli am running a pfsense firewall , i have one little (from my point of view) issue , i have 2 users taking almost 60% of my bandwidth (both web designers so they kinda like need it but am sure they are abusing ). i have setup squid on transparent mode and everytime i try to use the traffic shaper (they used to work) to limit the whole system to like 1 mb , some how the system finds a way after a while to burst the speeds , so my question is1. can i limit this 2 guys to a bandwidth set ... wanganane na ka 512 Kbps2. Whats cutting with my shaper? can i use it to limit instead of blocking?3.
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If you have one or more hosts on your network that are using most of the bandwidth you can place them in a "penalty box" to limit their usage to a certain percentage of available bandwidth. As in the previous setting if you need to list more than one host you will need to create an alias.
So now what I am saying is that you need to understand about Aliases in pfSense and work with them.
1. Yes - use Penalty box
2. Shaper is not supposed to be used for blocking. How is your implementation of the shaper?