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AI-generatedpfSense Traffic Shaper limiter fairness boundary without explicit mask configuration
pfSense exposes FreeBSD dummynet through the Traffic Shaper interface, where administrators create named limiters and attach them to pass rules to cap throughput on low-bandwidth links. The goal is to avoid overprovisioned hardware by enforcing a software ceiling, but only when the resulting fairness behavior is predictable. When a limiter is applied to a pa