[LinuxUsers] pfSense upgrade throttles torrent traffic well

[Dante Lanznaster]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
<roger.rustad at gmail.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, guys, the newest pfSense load I'm using (1.2.2) works
> great throttling torrents and other crap P2P traffic.
>
> The older version I used from about a year or two ago didn't always seem to
> work that great (http requests sometimes slow), but now every non-P2P
> connection seems extremely snappy (even with 50+ torrents going), and a
> constant ping test shows the latency increasing by a tiny fraction of the
> amount that it used to before.
>
> Anyone else using pfSense?  I finally got Dino to switch (he put it on a
> little Nokia box, which works great with FreeBSD because of IPSO). I'm
> really enjoying using it over the older Cisco PIX that I used before.

Been using pfSense for a couple years now, both at home and at a few
customers. Still on 1.2.1-RC1 though, and QoS seems to work fine,
even after a while. Older versions did crap out at some point though.