When I had Vonage problems, I cheated. I bought the LinkSys 2-line Router (RT31P2) - it has Vonage service built in. I enabled the DMZ feature on the LinkSys and pointed it to the pfSense box. Everything squeaky clean now!
Internet <-> Linksys <-> pfSense <-> LAN Technically, it is double NAT'ing your LAN data, but that's AOK for me. I don't know if the LinkSys will forward Internet initiated non - TCP/UDP data. But I do know it does from pfSense side. This is only an issue if you like to use your pfSense box for mobile IPSec (where the remote user is mobile, but your pfSense is static -- the other way works fine). - Jason -----Original Message----- From: mOjO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:13 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] Vonage vs. Bittorrent (QoS question) the epic struggle continues... i have Cable internet with a 8mb download and 768kb upload. my pfSense box is an old AMD K6-2 350mhz box with 128MB ram. i used the traffic shaper wizard (god bless the wizard) to configure my QoS and it does work but i want to even further prioritize the Vonage because when the torrents are really going i sometimes hear weird audio "artifacts" and while I hear the other end fine (plenty of downstream b/w) the other end complains of me breaking up and there is definitely a noticable 1-2 sec. delay in their response. I just got off the phone and it was usable but a bit choppy on his end and it cut me off twice. Right now I have 3 active torrents and 2 seeding with total download around 90KB/sec and upload around 53KB/sec, pfSense shows 1500 states, 29% memory usage, and a steady 15-25% CPU usage. everything appears to be registering in the appropriate queues (I can see the VoIP queue go up when i talk and the P2P queue is active as well). So I want the Vonage to work flawlessly despite the abuse i put my WAN link through. I have opened and forwarded UDP 5060-5061 to the vonage router which is on my regular internal lan. The QoS settings are really greek to me and i've perused some docs which do explain the settings to some degree but i'm still not sure what really helps vonage work smoothly. Can anybody reccomend any settings changes beyond what the wizard sets for vonage? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
