[Asterisk-Users] small qos switch

Michael Graves
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:27:34 -0000

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:13:24 -0800, Bob Knight wrote:

>I have multiple locations running * where all the phone are
>on their own lan and all the data is on a separate lan.
>The problem is they are sharing the same dsl connection.
>The locations are IAX2 trunked together, but it only takes
>one data down/up load to just kill the voice.
>
>What I am looking for is a small switch with QoS that I
>can stick in ahead of the dsl modem.  Plug in one connection
>from the voice lan and one from the data lan.
>
>I have found quite a few 24 or 48 port switches that will do
>this, but I really do not need anything that big.  There are
>already switches in place.
>
>Any recommendations please?

I highly recommend m0n0wall (http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/) which is a very
managable FreeBSD based router with traffic shaping capabilities. I run
it on a Soekris Engineering embedded PC just for convenience, though
there is a release for plain vanilla PCs with dual NICs. The PC version
can boot from CD and store its configs on floppy or USB key.

Michael

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