I have been reading all of the posts about QoS, and testing configuration options for weeks to learn how this works. But I must be missing some basic understanding because many of the things I try simply end up breaking everything, or limiting the bandwidth available to the rest of my network.
At this point I'm a little desperate because I need my phones to be 100% reliable while I continue experimenting (learning) the QoS syntax. So, I'm hoping that someone can post a very basic QoS configuration that I can use as a starting point.
All I'm trying to do is ensure that 4 phone devices have absolute priority over everything else. The devices can be identified either by fixed IP address (listed below) or their MAC address, but all traffic in/out to these devices should get the highest priority. I don't need to worry about ports or protocols - these addresses (IP or MAC) simply take priority.
Once I have a known good starting point I should be able to make further adjustments one at a time and monitor the impact.
Here's the layout of my network:
Cox Internet Premier service, which gives me up to 150 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload. (speedtest.net consistently reports 168/13)
The cable modem is plugged into the ERLite-3 eth0
The rest of my network is plugged into the ERLite-3 eth1
I have 3 wired VoIP phones with fixed addresses (outside of DHCP) at 192.168.10.151, .152, .153, and my cell phone is 192.168.10.161. (Cell service isn't very good here so Sprint automatically uses Wi-Fi when available for making calls.)
My interface configuration is listed below.
interfaces {
ethernet eth0 {
address dhcp
description WAN
dhcpv6-pd {
pd 0 {
interface eth1 {
host-address ::1
prefix-id :1
service slaac
}
prefix-length 60
}
rapid-commit enable
}
duplex auto
firewall {
in {
ipv6-name wan6-in
name wan-in
}
local {
ipv6-name wan6-local
name wan-local
}
}
speed auto
}
ethernet eth1 {
address 192.168.10.1/24
description Clients
duplex auto
firewall {
in {
ipv6-name client6-in
name client-in
}
local {
ipv6-name client6-local
name client-local
}
}
speed auto
}
ethernet eth2 {
address 192.168.2.1/24
description "Local 2"
duplex auto
speed auto
}
loopback lo {
}
}