pfSense also provides an wizard for setting up dedicated links. To use this wizard, navigate to Firewall | Traffic Shaper, click on the Wizards tab and click on the second option (traffic_shaper_wizard_dedicated.xml). On the first page, pfSense Traffic Shaper, you will be warned that custom links should not exceed 30% of the interface link/bandwidth. There is also an edit box where you must enter the number of WAN connections. As with the Multiple Lan/Wan wizard, the wizard will automatically fill in the number of WAN connections, so unless you want to use this traffic shaper on less than the total number of WAN interfaces, you can leave this value as it is and click on the Next button.
On the next few pages, the Shaper configuration pages, you will enter the parameters for each connection. There are two Local interface drop-down boxes. In the first drop-down box, you will specify the interface which will use this connection, and in the second drop-down box, you will specify the queuing discipline (again, the choices are PRIQ, CBQ and HFSC). The two WAN Interface drop-down boxes are set up in the same way, with the actual interface specified in the first drop-down box and the queuing discipline specified in the second one. The next options on the page are Upload, where you specify the upload bandwidth for the connection, and Download, where you specify the download bandwidth.
Both options have an edit box and a drop-down box; in the edit box you specify the bandwidth, and in the corresponding drop-down box, you specify the unit of measure for the edit box (Kbps, Mbps, or Gbps). When you are done, click on the Next button at the bottom. This page will repeat itself for as many WAN connections as you specified on the first page of the wizard. Thus, if you entered 3 on the first page, the next page will prompt you for the settings for Connection #2, and the next page after that will prompt you for the settings for Connection #3.
The next page, Voice over IP, allows you to configure the VoIP settings. Since the options here are identical to the options in the Multiple Lan/Wan wizard, we will not cover them in detail here, but instead refer to the Voice over IP subsection in the previous section. In fact, the next few pages of the wizard (Penalty Box, Peer to Peer Networking, Network Games, and Raise or lower other Applications, are all identical to corresponding pages in the Multiple Lan/Wan wizard, so refer to the previous section for those options as well.
As with the Multiple Lan/Wan wizard, at the end of the process, you will be presented with a final page. The rules and queues have been created, but will not be loaded until you click on the Finish button. Once you have done this, the traffic shaper will be active, but will only apply to new connections. If you want it to apply to all connections, you have to empty the state table using the Reset States option in Diagnostics | States.