monowall – Graves On SOHO Technology

Traffic Shaping For VOIP With m0n0wall

July 30, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband, VoIP

My screencast guide to traffic shaping for VOIP using m0n0wall has been posted on the m0n0wall web site.

However, Manuel Kasper (m0n0wall project lead) had some interesting ideas on how to revise and perhaps simplify my approach. What he describes departs from the approach underlying the present implementation of the Magic Shaper in m0n0wall. Use of the Magic Shaper is the basis of the existing screencast.

Updated to provide a YouTube version in the post and ftp downloadable high quality version.

m0n0wall Traffic Shaping For VOIP Screencast

July 29, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband, VoIP

After several months of thinking about it I finally got around to recording a screencast tutorial about setting up the traffic shaping feature in m0n0wall to accommodate VOIP traffic. Phillip Cooper's series of screencasts were the inspiration for this. In…

m0n0wall Now Supports Next Server Option for DHCP

July 28, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband

Sometimes its the little things that make life a lot easier. I just found that the latest beta of m0n0wall (v1.3b13) more properly supports the "Next Server" (aka Option 66) feature in the DHCP server. This is really handy for…

m0n0wall & DNS Vulnerability

July 22, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband

It appears that Dan Kaminsky's DNS vulnerability is now out in the open. Or maybe it isn't. Who knows. There was a lot of noise about vendors and ISPs dealing with patches, etc. Happily, it appears that m0n0wall is not…

monowall Screencast Tutorials

February 23, 2008
Michael Graves
Asterisk, Broadband, VoIP

Rarely do I profess as much devotion to a piece of software as I have for m0n0wall. I’m told that it’s one of the single most successful open source projects and it’s easy to see why. It’s been my primary router for over four years. It’s never let me down, and the user community is very supportive.

I am happy to see that Phillip Cooper has recently created a series of “screencasts” documenting it’s basic setup and configuration. This should help new users a lot. I wish they’d been around when I got started. I further wish that I’d thought to do the screencasts myself. It’s a good idea.