(OT) Re: [Wylug-help] QOS over transparrent bridge using Linux?

[Gary Stainburn]

On Monday 09 Aug 2004 10:13 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Ringways are in the middle of a £4M rebuild, splitting the building into
> three seperate sites.
>
> Connecting the two new sites to the existing one are 10MB transparrent
> bridges.  All 3 sites are using the same subnet and network traffic is
> working fine.
>
> However, we have a problem with our switchboards, which use VoIP to connect
> to erach other over the 10MB links.  Because the bridging is transparrent,
> there is no QOS facilities, and the VoIP has to fight with normal traffic
> causing the audio to 'Clip'.   Is there any way I could use a pair of Linux
> boxen to proile the traffic and enable a QOS facility?

Hi folks.

The only response I got from this was one from Jim, suggesting that I look
into using a managed switche, and suggested Ciscos.

As this looks like the only solution, can anyone suggest a suitable switch -
Cisco or otherwise - that will allow the priority of VoIP traffic over normal
data.

We have three sites in a daisy-chain setup, so three switches talking to each
other would be needed.

Gary
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