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

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Wed Feb 1 21:58:25 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:31, David W. Aquilina wrote:
> 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. 
> 
Come on... share those rule sets... I won't tell anyone.  :-)
   >>wink<<    >>wink<<
  <<knudge>>  <<knudge>>

But seriously, folks are more likely to want to use PF and OpenBSD if
they have an example that leads them to a desirable goal.

Thanks - Jon




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