Thanks all, With everyones help I was able to improve things - I'm not qualified to write a tutorial but I'll mention somethings I discovered that may help others down the line.
1.) PfSense Voip prioritization is for SIP trunks and I think actually negatively affected my IAX trunk (traffic was being bundled w/ p2p?) - I copied the SIP rules and modified the ports to the best as I understood things then disabled the SIP rules. 2.) Originally I think I had all uncategorized traffic being treated as p2p traffic which I had severely limited but I think that caused other problems like slow sending of attachments. Did not check this option this time. 3.) I guaranteed a significant amount of bandwidth (1500Kb) to VoIP but less than I would have liked as I could not tell if that was up, down, or both? and the next choice was 3000Kb which is about all my up pipe so I was concerned that may cause problems. I might try experimenting just a little more if I can figure out where the wizard puts this settings. 4.) I was unclear as to whether checking some choices would enable or disable some things and since unchecked seemed to be the default I want with that. Sadly I'm out of time to experiment and this setup and it will be gone in 10 days - I'm really hoping things hold together as it going into full production and will be really tested soon. But assuming it doesn't get me fired :) this foray into QoS has been interesting and I hope to learn more. Again thanks for all the advice, -Dane On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Lyle Giese <[email protected]> wrote: > Justin The Cynical wrote: >> On 8/31/10 7:33 AM, David Burgess wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Dane Reugger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm a long time fan of PfSense but several concepts elude me ... so I >>>> was hopping somebody had a VoIP QoS for PfSense how-to they could >>>> point me at. >>>> >>> The single most important aspect of a working QoS solution is to make >>> sure your outbound root queue is smaller than the upstream queue. I've >>> had perfect voip performance when this is done properly, but set it >>> one kbps too high and when the congestion happens it will be as if you >>> had no QoS. >>> >>> I wrote a quick and dirty howto for QoS with voip on Tomato. It's a >>> different platform but the concepts are the same, in particular the >>> points on properly sizing your root queue. >>> >>> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24028032- >>> >> >> Hmm, I get a 'board does not exist' error when trying to view that link. >> >> Do you mean this post? >> >> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21581951-HOWTO-QoS-and-Tomato-fixes-choppy-voice >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org >> >> > That link has a dash on the end that Thunderbird did not pick up here > when clicking on it. > > Lyle Giese > LCR Computer Services, Inc. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
