There's no doubt that troubleshooting traffic shaping issues can be challenging. Even if we set up the queues and rules the way we think they should be set up, it may not work the way we think it should, and in many cases, we might not get it to work right the first time. Often we must fall back on the tried and true troubleshooting steps: diagnosing the problem, forming a hypothesis, testing it, implementing a solution, verifying that the system works, and documenting the solution. But there are some common issues that we should also cover.

We may have problems keeping P2P traffic in the P2P queue. The main reason for this is that for the most part, pfSense relies on ports as matching criteria for the traffic shaping rules. Many P2P applications, including BitTorrent, rely on non-standard or random ports. There are several possible solutions...