http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf holds some nice information 
about the "evil" skype. Detailed information on the packets start at page 9.

Holger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Bauer 
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 5:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] Skype traffic priorization
> 
> 
> Skype is a bitch if it comes to shaping as it uses any 
> available port IF available and each endpoint can have random 
> incoming connection ports (the incoming port is 
> configurable): http://www.skype.com/help/guides/firewall.html
> So there is nor real way to set priority for that kind of 
> traffic based on ports (and it's hard to block that kind of 
> traffic too because of that without using a proxy). I'm not 
> sure if it places special TOS fields in the header but that 
> would be your only way then. Try to ethereal the connection 
> and check which flags are set and if they are different from 
> other traffic like browsing, ftp and so on. Then use the flag 
> options for the rules.
> 
> You also might try to just run the traffic shaper and assign 
> "prioritize voip" "default low delay" "32 kbit/s" (skype 
> usually uses that amount of traffic). Then view your queues 
> at status>queues and do a call. If you see traffic in the 
> voipqueue you are done as this means that skype sets "low 
> delay" flags.
> 
> Holger
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Paulo de Magalhaes Oliveira Junior 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 4:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [pfSense Support] Skype traffic priorization
> 
> 
> Does anybody know how to priorize Skype traffic in pfsense QOS?
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