Robert
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 13:10 -0500, Scott Ullrich wrote:
As far as we know yes. Bill has put out repeated pleas for testing and feedback but nobody seems to care. Scott On 2/21/06, John Cianfarani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is the traffic shaper working correctly now for voip in the latest > snapshot? > > Thanks > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Marquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:28 PM > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Traffic Shaper hints needed. > > You've horribly butchered bits vs bytes. Everything in the shaper > wizard is in bits. A 6Mb connection is 6Megabits, not 6MegaBytes, > hence the 600KByte download (notice the conversion I did?) FYI, if > you have 5 lines, you probably want to reserve 5 x line rate - if line > rate is 96Kb/sec then you want 480Kb (or whatever setting above that > is close - say 512Kb) for the reservation. That will allow all 5 > lines to be talking at the same time. > > --Bill > > On 2/21/06, Robert Goley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a pfsense firewall setup that I am trying to prioritize Vonage > VOIP > > traffic. I am replacing a M0n0wall firewall that had some traffic > shaper > > config setup for the Vonage routers. I have 3 Vaonge routers carrying > 5 > > phone lines across a 768KB/6MB (UP/DOWN) cable modem connection. I > may be > > making this harder on myself than it really is but I am not sure what > values > > to put where. I know that as a rule of thumb you only get %10 of the > > advertised bandwidth. For example, I have a 6 MB download speed but > only > > get about 600kb/s download rate from extremely fast servers. Vonage > > advertizes 90kb/s bandwidth usage per line. This is actually a > 8-10kb/s > > upload/download rate. When using the traffic shaper wizard, I can > specify > > the provider and optionally a IP address or alias. I chose Vonage and > an > > alias that includes all 3 routers. The next itme is reserved > bandwidth for > > VOIP. I don't know what I need to put here. Is it the advertised > speed > > 768KB or 76KB/s? I don't want to accidentally assign more bandwidth > than I > > have since that renders the traffic shaper useless. I did not have > major > > problems with my VOIP traffic with the M0n0wall. Since switching, I > have > > had quite a bit of broken voice etc. Could someone drop me a couple > of > > hints on this? I am using the 2-8-06 version from sullrich. > > > > Robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
