If the p2p is acting like Skype traffic there is nothing you can do. If the two protocols are getting similar, a finer Skype match will work. If Skype changed their methodology then you'll need to come up with a layer 7 rule.
Where did you get the rules you have now? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Greg Ihnen <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, on the high latency, high jitter low bandwidth connection we have > here the prioritization and bandwidth limiting of the various protocols and > kinds of traffic makes all the difference between Skype being unusable to > being *almost* perfect. > > On a side now, I had to downgrade from ROS 5.6 to 4.17 because the log was > full of error relating to the L7 processing. There's a thread over on the MT > forum. > > Greg > On Sep 14, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > >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] >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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