{SPAM?} [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VIA SSH Tunnels

[Steve Underwood]

Tom Neville wrote:

> I've been running ssh tunnels for a couple of years now.  For years, 
> they've worked well.  However, now that I've got asterisk up I do 
> notice problems.  Biggest indication of this is if I'm on a call and 
> run a program in another window that scrolls and scrolls call quality 
> drops off significantly.  (I'm using FreeBSD on all the tunnel 
> machines going back to the office.  I work at an ISP, so I have a 
> machine here at the office and use the tunnels across my DSL lines.)
>
> Based on advice from David McNett, I'm looking at moving to OpenBSD 
> for the tunnel machines.  With that, I'll be able to use pf+altq 
> (http://slacker.com/~nugget/asterisk4.php) on the tunnel interfaces.  
> Hopefully, that will take care of the only issue I've had with the 
> tunnels since installing them.

Your tunnels worked well because yoou used TCP across them. Now you are 
trying to stream UDP, and that works very badly. Changing platforms 
won't help at all. You need to change the type of tunnel you use. Any 
connection oriented tunnel is bad news for streaming.

Regards,
Steve