ClearFoundation

Nice...and previously enabled users were not deselected with this update. Thank you Mr. Tim.

Even more useful. Thanks.

Peter

Another usefull module from Tim

just wanted to say, this really helped me. Nice work Tim,,,

thx

this may be a bit off topic here but not sure where to place it since for me it goes with the bandwidth monitor.

My question is for the bandwidth rules to work. I must disable transparent mode correct? If i disable that option. What would I be losing from the enabled transparent mode?

Hi Alton,

The proxy only affects web traffic (i.e. port 80), when it is enabled regardless of transparent mode all web traffic (i.e. destination port 80) will have a source IP of your WAN interface, and not your LAN IP's.

This will affect how you create your bandwidth rules, as mentioend in several other threads the end result is that you can't shape web traffic on an IP basis for different LAN clients if the proxy is turned on.

Usually when the proxy is running and transparent mode is disabled, each browser then has to be configured to use the ClearOS proxy (on port 3128) to get web access. So it actually doesn't matter whether transparent mode is on or not.

Thanks TIM! for clearing that all up. It now makes more sense to me.

sorry but I do not speak English, I'm from Peru
then, is not possible to have the transparent proxy and bandwidth rules active at the same time.
What I want is to use the cache pages and control the bandwidth per user of my lan, mainly for online games.
Any ideas?

Yes that's right - when the proxy is on, all web traffic (destination port 80) leaving your ClearOS box has the source IP of your WAN, not LAN IP's. This means it is not possible to create bandwidth rules for *web* traffic on LAN IP addresses. This is the same for all web proxy's.

Think of it in reverse, prioritise the trafic you *want* to get through, not limiting bandwidth for others.

So in your situtation I would create a global rule for web traffic which is limited to say 80% of your max bandwidth - by specifying a lower Ceiling value. Then create your gaming rules with a low rate so that they are not starved of bandwidth when they need it. This works well for me here with torrent traffic and gaming

Excellent work!

Thanks David!

It hasn't been noted yet but the app will only produce stats for 1 WAN interface (IMQ0 and IMQ1). Multi wan support is on my todo list