[LibreQoS] New devblog: Dynamic Circuits - Part 1

[Frantisek Borsik <frantisek.borsik@gmail.com>]

Hello to all,

When we finished removing the reload penalty, we unblocked a lot of
development options - many of them features people have been wanting for a
long time. The most recent is dynamic circuits:


*https://devblog.libreqos.com/posts/0016-dynamic-circuits1/
<https://devblog.libreqos.com/posts/0016-dynamic-circuits1/>*

Previously, when LibreQoS spotted traffic from an IP address that didn’t
appear in ShapedDevices.csv, it listed it as an “Unknown IP” - and didn’t
really let you do a lot with it. It was up to you to figure out what it
was, what it’s doing. It was subject to traffic shaping, but was put into a
big “unknown” bucket - shaped collectively. We’ve offered a few workaround
over the years, which can help - but they aren’t really what people want.
For example, declaring “Fallback subnets” with a shared “unknown pool” of
bandwidth can help a lot. It’s also led to some wasteful design - if you
know public WiFi can occupy 254 IP addresses but each needs individual
shaping, you might have been tempted to create 254 circuits - whether or
not you needed them.


All the best,

Frank

Frantisek (Frank) Borsik


*In loving memory of Dave Täht: *1965-2025

https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/


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