[Asterisk-Users] GXP-2000

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I have heard good things about the D-Link DES-1226G switch ($150 at 
> newegg).  If you can run a separate cable to the computer and phone.  If 
> you can't run the extra cables, then configure your phone to tag itself 
> as part of the voip vlan and let the switch tag everything else as the 
> computer vlan.
> 
> I happen to have asterisk running as a router, so I use it doing QoS 
> with tc (traffic control) and wondershaper set to prioritize based on 
> port ranges.  I sent a patch to the debian bug tracking system a while 
> back with a few improvements -- I should check on that.  It basically 
> prioritizes smaller packets before larger packets with ~8 levels of 
> priority and groups of sizes for the packets.  Just doing that 
> automatically handles 80% of the need for prioritization without 
> specifying port ranges for the sip rtp packets.
> 
> Mike
> 

Mike,

	Have you tried AstShape?  Shapping based on port ranges is totally hit 
or miss.  TOS is the way to go:

http://www.krisk.org/files/astlinux-i586/usr/sbin/astshape

Comment out the . /etc/rc.conf and you should be okay!

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Kristian Kielhofner