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Your rules look good. The only thing I can suggest is to play with priority numbers. On 10/25/05, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail dot com> wrote: > > On 10/23/05, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail dot com> wrote: > > Today I put a few rules in place to prioritize the packets going > > to/from my VoIP box. They work well at ensuring clear calls, but I've > > noticed that since adding the rules, the rest of my network traffic > > has seemed to get quite a bit slower. I'm running the cdrom image of > > m0n0-1.2 on a 400 MHz PC with 512 mb RAM. Here's my current ruleset: > > > > http://andersonfam.org/gallery2/d/13628-1/traf_shape.jpg > > > > I tried to take a simpler-is-better approach with one set of rules to > > match the up/down VoIP traffic (dumped into a high-priority queue) and > > one set to match everything else (dumped into a low priority queue). > > My understanding was that the shaping would only really affect things > > when there was VoIP traffic and that if there was no call going on, > > traffic would flow as freely (minus a bit of CPU overhead) as before > > the rules were put in place. I guessing that this assumption was > > wrong. I've watched the CPU graph while browsing websites, and it > > never gets above 2% or so, so the processing overhead isn't causing > > the delay. > > > > Would anyone have a recommendation or two for rules I could add here > > to retain the high-priority VoIP traffic, while improving the overall > > response time of other network traffic? > > Bump. > > Any ideas here or am I on my own? > > Thanks- > Erik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > |