Just use the 'tos' tag in pf.conf to match against the IP tos field. Most equipment sets this to something predictable, like 0x68 for RTP and 0xb8 for SIP.... Just use tcpdump to see what your RTP traffic is tagged as, and also prioritize SIP above RTP. You could also try matching based on IP addresses if they are predictable, or a combination of the two.
Using just the tos tag by itself may lead to applications cheating to get priority bandwidth. David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1/23/08 6:28 AM, Jeff Santos wrote: > >> I would like to setup PF so that, whenever an initial voip flow was >> detetcted, all other non relevant traffic would be blocked, and normal >> packet flow being restored only after some voip idleness be detected. >> Can it be done? Can someone give some ideas of how? > > I'm not sure about quenching non-VoIP traffic; maybe someone else knows the > answer on that. > > How you detect a VoIP flow may also be an issue. If your VoIP traffic uses > SIP, you can classify the signaling traffic on 5060/udp -- but then the > voice or video traffic will use RTP/RTCP and some ephemeral port chosen > during call setup. > > This isn't necessarily a show-stopper, but you'll need to use some other > classification criterion such as IP address or VLAN interface for the media > traffic. (Since it's common practice to put VoIP on a separate VLAN and/or > IP subnet, you may already be doing this -- then, just prioritize any > traffic from that VLAN or subnet, regardless of whether it's signaling or > media stuff.) > > Asterisk optionally can use IAX2 and send both signaling and media traffic > over 4569/udp. > > (If anyone has a method for RTP/RTCP awareness in pf -- including the > ability to set up and tear down rules for the call duration -- please share > it!) > > dn -- It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. --William Strunk
