Reference Manual

HOW TO use the cFos Traffic Shaper with NAT32.

CFOS 8 will not install on systems that have the NDIS3PKT driver running, so BE SURE to uninstall NDIS3PKT and reboot Windows before installing cFos 8.

After installing or upgrading the cFos Traffic Shaper Driver, a Windows reboot is required to restart the WinPkFilter Driver.

Introduction

CFOS V.8 is an advanced Traffic Shaper that dynamically allocates network bandwidth amongst networking applications. This speeds up overall network performance and ensures that high-bandwidth apps such as FTP do not cause starvation in other communicating applications.

CFOS also functions as a Firewall for your DSL Connection. It differs from the Windows Firewall in that it examines both incoming and outgoing traffic, and it filters all DSL traffic, not just Winsock traffic as does the Windows Firewall.

Commands

NAT32 Build 2208 contains a cfos command that lets you interact with the cFos Driver. The supported command set is:

        set             set port specific variable
        module [name]   on/off  switch module [name] on or off
        perf on/off     switch statistics display on/off
        close           close LAN port

        ping            send an echo request
        sethops         set the TTL for outgoing test pings
        speed           show current shaper settings
        medium          set connection characteristics
        tsclear         clear the traffic shaping settings for this connection

        class           add a new traffic class or change settings on an existing one
           -speed [x]   sets the speed to [x].  use 'inf' to specify infinite speed
           -prio  [x]   sets the priority to [x]
           -clear       clears the stats

        cstat           print all classes with stats.  accepts a wildcard like '*' or 'f*'
           -clear       clear stats afterwards.

        filter          show/add/modify filters.  -print prints filters after the operation
           [no option]    show all filters
           -A [f]         append filter [f] at the end
           -D [num]       delete filter at position [num]
           -I [num] [f]   insert filter [f] at position [num]
           -R [num] [f]   replace filter at position [num] with filter [f]
           -M [old] [new] move filter from position [old] to [new]

        reload          reload settings from ini file
           -filter      reload filters

        save            save filter/class settings to ini file.
           -class or -filter to save classes or filters.

        addkey [section] [key]  add [key] to [section] in settings.ini
        delkey [section] [key]  delete [key] from [section] in settings.ini
        showsect [section]      show section [section] in settings.ini

        fwstat          show firewall filter statistics (-clear to clear after display)
        fstat           show all filter statistics (-clear to clear after display)

        netstat         print global network protocol statistics
        pingstat        print ping statistics (-clear clears stats after printing)
        cons            list of tcp connections (-cps for cps, -vol for volume)

        burst           start a burst of data to check line speed

        ports           list all ports
        pcnt            show packet counters
        ver             print cFosSpeed version info

        dump off/in/out/net/app/ign/ip/ipr   dump of network packets
        gset            set global variable (-save to save it to ini file)
        tvstat          print tcpview statistics
        prognames       print known program names

See Also

Full details of the latest cFos version are here: cFos Home