On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:55:45 -0500, Michael Graves wrote:

>Sure. Although it helps to know what protocols you run through m0n0. My
>Asterisk server places outgoing calls via IAX2 and accepts incomming
>calls via both IAX2 and SIP.
>
>You absolutely have to start with a real world measurment of your
>connect speeds up and down. Your traffic shapping must not saturate
>either of those or the benefit will be lost.
>
>The use the Magic Shaper Wizard on the Traffic Shaping tool. This will
>setup basic rules, pipes and queues. You should have two pipes;
>Total_upload & Total_download.
>
>Here's where I change the setup a little. I add a third pipe called
>Dedicated_IAX_upload. I split my upload data rate between Total_upload
>and Dedicated_IAX_upload. In my case on Covad ADSL with a measured
>650kbps upload I set my total upload speed for only 600kbps. I then
>assign 384kbps to pipe 2 (Total_upload) and 256kbps to pipe 3
>(Dedicated_IAX_upload.)
>
>In essence, I full time assign about 40% of my outbound bandwidth to
>the voip stuff.
>
>Then in the rules section of traffic shaper I add two rules for my
>Asterisk traffic. All UDP traffic from the servers IP to the wan is
>driected to pipe3. All UDP traffic from the wan to the server is
>assigned to Queue 8 which is High_priority_download.
>
>Of course you need firewall NAT and port forwarding settings in place
>as well. The traffic shaping isn't port specific in my arrangement.
>
>I've had my Asterisk & m0n0 system in use for about 2 years. You need
>to understand that traffic shaping won't cure bandwidth issues, but it
>will make some situation more acceptable. I found that adding G.729
>codecs to my server was also very helpfull in reducing the demand for
>bandwidth.
>
>Also, I don't use any p2p stuff beyond Skype...which I'd rather not use
>but many of my overseas coworkers are addicted.
>
>Michael Graves

Since this question has come up several times recently I've made screen
shots of my m0n0 traffic shaper settings available via the following
links.

m0n0-traffic-pipes.png (29.0 KB bytes) =>
http://www.onlinefilefolder.com/index.php?action=getshare&type=0&user_nu
m=7354&share_id=65139&hash=7ff08f9a2f332b4840e38ae01a14b94a

m0n0-traffic-queues.png (36.0 KB bytes) =>
http://www.onlinefilefolder.com/index.php?action=getshare&type=0&user_nu
m=7354&share_id=65140&hash=9a5928b33bfa93b6da0e9bc1cc4eaa05

m0n0-traffic-rules.png (76.6 KB bytes) =>
http://www.onlinefilefolder.com/index.php?action=getshare&type=0&user_nu
m=7354&share_id=65141&hash=844f1bdb26da2ac338dae36dc52b6862

m0n0-traffic-wizard.png (30.4 KB bytes) =>
http://www.onlinefilefolder.com/index.php?action=getshare&type=0&user_nu
m=7354&share_id=65142&hash=de5cc82b549628ad09e6ec92b486b461


Michael Graves
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