VOIP over VPN with cicso PIX series firewalls

Archived from groups: comp.dcom.voice-over-ip (More info?)

Rich wrote:
> Anyone have any experience with this? Our set up is fairly simple; we have
> 4 locations in 3 states connected via VPN over dsl lines of various speeds
> (1.5meg, 768, 768, 512 all asynchronous). VPN works great, but when I've
> experimented with netmeeting there is a 3 or 4 second lag in the voice and
> the video is pretty choppy. Do I need frame connections to get the QOS
> that is needed or is it possible to make our set up work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich
>
>
>

Once your data enters the VPN the QOS gets eaten! Sorry, but I think you
cannot combine the two because your network can no longer give priority
to the VoIP when needed.

Archived from groups: comp.dcom.voice-over-ip (More info?)

Give priority to the VPN perhaps?

"Rich" <not@chance.com> wrote in message
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> "Rick Merrill" <jaynehm@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > Rich wrote:
> > > Anyone have any experience with this? Our set up is fairly simple;
we
> have
> > > 4 locations in 3 states connected via VPN over dsl lines of various
> speeds
> > > (1.5meg, 768, 768, 512 all asynchronous). VPN works great, but when
> I've
> > > experimented with netmeeting there is a 3 or 4 second lag in the voice
> and
> > > the video is pretty choppy. Do I need frame connections to get the
QOS
> > > that is needed or is it possible to make our set up work.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Once your data enters the VPN the QOS gets eaten! Sorry, but I think you
> > cannot combine the two because your network can no longer give priority
> > to the VoIP when needed.
> >
>
> That's what I figured but had to ask anyway.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich
>
>