Hi guys,
If anyone can shed any light on this, i would be very appreciative. I have started learning RouterOS using a book called "RouterOS by Example". I have used three simple queues to achieve the following:
1. Traffic to/from our hosted VOIP platform, reserved 512kbit symmetrically, priority 1. Traffic is identified using two mangles - incoming and outgoing traffic from the hosted server.
2. All other traffic, unlimited bandwidth, priority 7.
3. Replication traffic for our off-site backup system (identified by the ports and destination IP), reserved 512kbit upstream, priority 8.
This seems to work fine, but what I wanted to do really was to allow the backup traffic to take as much upstream as possible, as long as the VOIP had taken what it needed first. I was under the impression that because the backup traffic only had priority 8, that this would automatically make this the case. However, the VOIP suffers badly when I allow it unlimited bandwidth.
Do I need to be doing something differently please? Also, if I set an unlimited "target upload" and a "target download", I cannot see how much data is flowing through the queue in detailed view. Is there a reason for this? Should I have set the max upload in the WAN interface to help matters?
Thanks in advance!