Questions

Answer the following questions:

  1. What is the purpose of traffic shaping?
  2. (a) Identify the three types of queuing supported by the pfSense traffic shaper. (b) Identify a queuing discipline that tends to ensure that low-priority traffic is not starved of bandwidth. (c) Identify a queuing discipline that uses a two-part nonlinear curve and decouples bandwidth from latency.
  3. Can we implement Layer 7 traffic shaping with the built-in pfSense traffic shaper? Assume we are using the current version of pfSense.

  1. Identify the two wizards with which we can implement traffic shaping in pfSense using the built-in traffic shaper.
  2. Identify a type of queue which provides for end-to-end notification of network congestion without dropping packets. ...

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