Christoph Hanle wrote:
Carl Youngblood schrieb:
On 5/2/06, Scott Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/2/06, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am new to pfsense and have a question and a suggestion. I just
> installed pfsense on a brand new appliance that we bought from
> linitx.com, found here:
>
>
http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=4&products_id=909&osCsid=9be4eef80f6c2fa682ad294a2e92d3dc
>
> It seems to work well, except that when I go to the traffic shaping
> menu item, it says that my interface doesn't support altq. This is
> critical to us, as we use voip for our phone system. Any
suggestions?
> I would be surprised to hear that there isn't some way to do QoS on
> this brand new device.
Which device? If it says that ALTQ is not supported then its not,
unfortunately.
Realtek 8169 for the 5 100 Mbit ports
Realtek 8139 for the 1 Gigabit port
Imho are these chipsets a joke and not usable in a firewall or router.
You will get a lot of trouble with this scrap.
I had similar boxes running with pfSense and m0n0wall and trouble with
the stability and performance of some connections. After replacing the
boxes with "smaller" PCs with real NICs the problems are vanished.
I think the latest-generation RealTek's are not that bad - I may be
wrong, because I avoid them like the plague myself, but ISTR having read
somewhere that the latest generation is somehow better than the the 1st
generation (on which the comment in the source is really targeted).
cheers,
Rainer
