[TriLUG] Site to Site VPN over the net? Good enough for VoIP?

[Jon Carnes]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 15:14, Chad Thomsen wrote:
> I would love to look into traffic shaping devices but it is VERY expensive
> last time we looked at it which was a few years ago.  Don't know if my
> company would go for it beause we first need some infrastructure upgrades
> here.  We are still running hubs at a few locations... YIKES!!!
> 

Well you are in better luck these days... to bring this back on to the
topic of linux... Wondershapper running on a small PC can do QoS and
bandwidth shaping for you. You could probably get do the deed for under
$200/site.

Personally I would use an OpenBSD box in Bridged mode to do my traffic
shaping. It would simply fit right in front of the router and handle the
shaping transparently. Jason special built a box like that for one of
our clients that was having some QoS issues - mainly due to the mixing
of VPN in with his VoIP and all connected via TimeWarner Cable.

The client is now very happy and their Voice sounds great! And the cost
for the OpenBSD firewall was very low.

BTW: I try to stick to the real world here when talking about VoIP and
other items that I have some skill with, but it is great to see someone
quoting the RFCs every and now and then! Keep it up Ryan! 

Writing from the front lines of the VoIP revolution,

Jon Carnes
FeatureTel