From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mogens Valentin Subject: Re: iptables and voip Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:50:45 +0200 Message-ID: <42849495.7010004@danbbs.dk> References: Reply-To: monz@danbbs.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Christ, Bryan wrote: > I have a NAT firewall and two voip phones located behind the firewall. > I wanted to know if it was possible to prioritize that traffic with > iptables so that my phone conversations received enough bandwidth. I > apologize if this information is somewhere on the netfilter website. I > looked for something related but could only find information on > prioritizing quake and a few other services. I also "google" it and > came up with nothing significant. Not being able to help at the moment, according to a friend of mine, who worked at IP telephone systems, this is be a Quality of Service topic. Voip/Sip et al will happily consume all bandwidth available - of cause, depending upon just _how_ much bandwith you're buing :p He solved it with the build-in QOS in his router. YMMV... -- Kind regards, Mogens Valentin