UPnP traffic shaping

Out of the box, traffic allowed in by the UPnP daemon will end up in the default queue. This happens because the rules generated dynamically by the UPnP daemon do not have any knowledge of queues unless UPnP is configured to send traffic into a specific queue.

Depending on what the client devices utilizing UPnP on a network, this may be low priority traffic like Bittorrent, or high priority traffic like game consoles or voice chat programs like Skype.

To configure UPnP to use a specific ALTQ queue:

• Setup ALTQ shaping and decide which queue to use for UPnP & NAT-PMP
• Navigate to Services > UPnP & NAT-PMP
• Enter the chosen ALTQ queue name into the Traffic Shaping field
• Click Save

This trick only works with the ALTQ shaper. At this time, the firewall is not capable of assigning UPnP traffic to a limiter.