[Asterisk-Users] Using Linux traffic shaping to prioritise SIP/IAX traffic?

[Stephen Davies]

On 10 Jun 2003, Emanuele Pucciarelli wrote:

> Il mar, 2003-06-10 alle 17:19, Stephen Davies ha scritto:
> 
> > Has anyone done anything with the Linux advanced routing stuff to give
> > SIP and IAX traffic priority?
> > 
> > What I have in mind is a high-pri queue for voip traffic, all the rest
> > in another queue that gives way to the VOIP stuff.
> 
> When the "tos" option is set correctly (to "nodelay"), the default
> queueing in recent kernels already does that, because the pfifo_fast
> queue is used (if I recall correctly).

But there is never any queue on my Linux box.  It all storms out of
the ethernet interface and gets queued up in my cable modem which
doesn't know anything about tos settings.

I did find the "wondershaper" script on www.lartc.org which looks like
it will do what I need.

Thanks,
Steve