Hi everyone,
RE: Bandwidth. We have an asterisk server sharing bandwidth with other
[web] servers in cabinets that we rent in a large data-center and all is
working fine. But I'm concerned that web traffic could affect the VoIP
quality (my tests so far haven't showed this [yet!]. Currently I'm
running a server with Netfilter (iptables) between all the servers and
the Internet with Forward rules and I'm also including a "wondershaper"
type QoS ruleset with TC to priortise the outgoing VoIP traffic (I say
outgoing because this is really the only thing I can shape on the
connection as far as I can see).
My choice, going forward, is to either buy more bandwidth and magically
implement better QoS or the other option is to bring in a separate patch
cable, with separate bandwidth, and a different IP address range
directly to the asterisk and dedicate bandwidth to it and it alone.
In a way the sharing of bandwidth with QoS would appear to be the better
value option but I can't see that the TC QoS can really be up to the
task (again partially this is because I can only control the outgoing
traffic shaping - there is nothing I can do about the incoming traffic
flooding the bandwidth).
But obviously the data center has fully operational bandwidth shaping to
their clients (me!) - or bandwidth "throttling" might be the better
description as they limit my bandwidth to what I buy from them so by
buying the separate bandwidth I'd just be relying on their bandwidth
shaping rather than trying to do it myself.
Does anyone out there know the correct answer to this? I'm sure many
people must have come up against this before?
Thanks for any help!
Derek
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