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

David W. Aquilina david at starkindler.us
Wed Feb 1 20:31:41 EST 2006


On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:21:46PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 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.

I'm not using it in any kind of 'production' environment, however this is the setup I use at home - OpenBSD running on an older Alpha. It works quite well, and personally I prefer pf over iptables. Feel free to ask me off-list for an example of the rules I use. 


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David W. Aquilina
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