Michael,
I have a number of home office sites connected to the corporate office via Bering boxes running IPSEC VPNs. The VPNs have been as stable as rocks.
Our phones are VOIP and our email system is Lotus Notes. If you know anything about Notes, you know it will kill all available bandwidth when it sends or receives mail. This is disasterous to a VOIP conversation especially outgoing (We are using cable with only 256K outbound.) I was able to counter Notes by using QOS. I allotted fixed bandwidth to VOIP. Unfortunately I am no expert on this subject and still have some bugs to work out, but for the most part our phone calls work perfectly.
Roger
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:29:12 -0600
From: Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: leaf-user mailing list <leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [leaf-user] Need VOIP advice
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We have a client with two (2) facilities, each of which has a T-1 to the Internet. Currently, their network is a mess; and we are redesigning it.
One complication is their interoffice telephone system. Facility #1 has a conventional connection via copper to the outside world. Between the two facilities, they are using VOIP. There is a SonicWall at each office acting as VPN gateways for data AND voice between the two facilities. There is no QoS, load balancing, nothing -- perhaps, you can imagine the problems they are having.
They are not interested in a third, point-to-point T-1, because it is more than double the cost to their Internet T-1's, &c.
How have you designed a solution for a similar situation? How can I use Bering-uClibc to create a more well behaved network?
What do you think?
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