On 1 Mar 2011 at 21:19, SJP Lists wrote: > With my link at about 12Mbit/S worth of web traffic and altq keeping > my VoIP calls nice and clean, my Soekris 5501 with OpenBSD 4.6 hovers > around 85% idle.
Would you please describe what you do for inbound traffic shaping / rate limiting; do you route through a loopback interface and do outbound shaping? VoIP is such a compromise for voice quality when there is no national end-to-end QoS on IP traffic -- and to think that Obama's FCC is/was seriously proposing VoIP as a mandate? Gads! It never ceases to amaze me what people will settle for in voice link quality -- cell phones' convenience seems to have destroyed expectations of uninterrupted and clear voice channels and VoIP may work most of the time but just wait until you are in an important conversation with a client and suddenly you sound like a Klingon, or the echo sounds like the traffic was routed to the moon and back or dropouts and resulting predictive reconstruction makes you sound like a Munchkin -- or worse, the data is lost (all this still happens on cell phones too) I find myself warning the other party at the start of every conversation that I am on a VoIP link. -- what we're they thinking???? Anyway, whatever altq approaches that have worked for you would be great to know... Michael
