>MT's L7 Skype regex The rules inside of this monster?
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Basic_traffic_shaping_based_on_layer-7_protocols Do you have to prioritize Skype? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Greg Ihnen <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I've gotten so much out of these forums. I appreciate you letting me > be a part of them. I had an idea which I don't know if it would be of > interest to anyone here but I hope it is. It has to do with bandwidth > management and P2P and Skype and their interaction in MT's RouterOS. > > I've noticed some P2P traffic gets picked up by the L7 regex for > Skype. Since anyone doing bandwidth management for both Skype and P2P is > probably trying to prioritize Skype and de-prioritize P2P and MT's confusing > the two is going to have negative consequences. Having the P2P traffic get > into Skype's queue does the exact opposite of what I'm trying to do. > > You'll see when MT's L7 Skype regex is misidentifying P2P traffic as > Skype traffic is the inbound and outbound traffic will be greatly > unbalanced, much more so than even if one side was doing voice and video and > the other side was just doing voice. I was seeing hundreds of Kbps down and > one or two Kbps up on the Skype queues. I knew that wasn't right. I looked > and sure enough there was bit torrent activity going on. I wonder if some of > these bit torrent clients don't try to make their traffic appear to be > traffic of legit apps. > > I'm using a modified version of Butch's script. What I'm doing with > regard to Skype and P2P to correct this problem is the part of the script > that detects P2P traffic keeps a list of the local users's IPs. I have the > part of the script that prioritizes Skype ignore the user's traffic if > they're one of the P2P'ers. That means not only does their P2P work poorly > but their Skyping is not going to be as good as it would if they weren't > messing around with P2P. I'm very heavily trying to discourage P2P here. > > Greg > ----------------------------------------------- > Wireless Users Group [email protected] > >
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