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Post by eagleeye on Feb 19, 2015 13:18:46 GMT
there will be i am sure many new features that many of us have asked for over the years....all in good time as developers add their ideas and creations to better help this product for the 2015 era of technology features needed in today's internet needs.
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Post by Lee Sharp on Feb 19, 2015 16:11:48 GMT
Oh, yes... I have a list too!  But we still need something small and lean, so picking and choosing will be interesting. But some things I have though of are; Newer VPN support like l2tp. A span port (mirror) for sniffing or IDS/SEM systems. But first, we will need to develop a team of developers, and decide what will happen and in what order. That is the one big difference between what we will do and what Manual did. I am not as good a coder as Manual was, so I can not run the project like he did. There will be a lot of developer community input. |
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Post by eagleeye on Feb 23, 2015 3:44:02 GMT
better CP feature updates for 2015 mobile droids and devices....so people dont get trapped in the CP sign in html void....also a tier pay for bandwidth system.....also a PMS interface where the firewall can talk with a PMS server for names and passwords ect along with billing.....the hugest thing I would like to see in this new project is the NO IP feature added where any IP setting in any device can get connected to the network.
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Post by cmutwiwa on Feb 27, 2015 13:03:49 GMT
I know m0n0wall has one of the best and easy to setup traffic shaper, I think the "Share Bandwidth Evenly on LAN" is the best check box ever created, I mean if you compare it with what you have to go through in others like pfsense to achieve the same results then you know where I'm coming from. However, there is always room for improvement, I'm not a developer and I know it might not be that simple or may be its not even possible at all but is there anything that can be done so that the traffic shaper can tell the amount of bandwidth without assigning it manually?...think of very unstable connections like one of my 2mbit connection whereby this moment I get 2mbit, the next moment I get 0.6mbit, 1mbit and so on, you realize that with this type of connection its almost impossible to turn on the traffic shaper and if you have to you will have to set very low speeds of may be 512kbps which is unreasonable for a connection with upto 2.5mbit speeds at times. There is this thread i was following in pfsense whereby some people where talking of fq_codel as a queuing discipline and some argued that with fq_codel the set bandwidth option is not necessary and so you can bypass that because fq_codel can keep track of the actual bandwidth coming in on its own, I don't know how true that is so I will leave it to the experts who might ever come across this post to explain how possible that it and if its indeed possible then I guess there can be a away to incorporate fq_codel in SmallWall's traffic shaper. I can tell you together with the "share bandwidth evenly on LAN" its would be unbeatable
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Post by Lee Sharp on Feb 27, 2015 17:57:02 GMT
is there anything that can be done so that the traffic shaper can tell the amount of bandwidth without assigning it manually? I actually looked into this a few years back, and I could not figure out a good way to do it. I figured out some ways to rate it down, but rating back up again was a problem.  Not to say it could not be done, but I could not figure out a way to do it at the time. (At least not without lots of overheard all the time) If anyone wants to try, however, I will share everything I tried. I am just not ready to try again myself. My forehead is still sore from the last time.  |
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Post by cmutwiwa on Feb 28, 2015 7:21:19 GMT
is there anything that can be done so that the traffic shaper can tell the amount of bandwidth without assigning it manually? I figured out some ways to rate it down, but rating back up again was a problem. Glad to know that someone actually tried it. Thats really promising, if you did figure out how to rate it down, I'm pretty sure someone else can figure out how to rate it back up! |
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Post by cmutwiwa on Feb 28, 2015 8:06:33 GMT
I came across this and thought it would be of interest, its about CoDel as a queuing discipline, you didn't mention it in your reply Lee but I would like to hear what you have to say about it, do you think this is something that can be introduced in SmallWall? do you think it can help with the traffic shaper so that no bandwidth rates needed to be set? kindly check the link... tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-aqm-codel-00#section-4.2 |
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Post by Lee Sharp on Feb 28, 2015 16:27:21 GMT
To be honest, I am having to focus my own time on some other things first, so it would be a while before I can really look at it. But if you are interested in looking at it, I will help in whatever way I can. That way I can devote myself to the nightmares of php upgrades. |
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But we still need something small and lean, so picking and choosing will be interesting.
