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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…

Brough Turner Revisits QoS Or The Lack Thereof

April 30, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband, VoIP

Brough Turner has written an updated version of his classic opinion/overview of network QoS. His opinion that we'll never have end-to-end QoS on the internet raised some eyebrows in December 2006...but he was dead right, and remains so to this…

Traffic Shaping for VOIP: Visible Proof

February 13, 2008
Michael Graves
VoIP

I just love it when things work as expected. Having been out of town for a couple of days I came back today and needed upload quite a few things to servers in the UK. As I was doing this…