Hi
We have two SXT 5HnD’s setup as a wireless bridge between two buildings with 3 VLAN’s running over them. VLAN’s carry a VoIP subnet, an unsecured/public subnet and a private subnet.
We’ve just had fibre installed to an MPLS at 100Mb and we’re now finding the wireless bridge is getting congested and our VoIP quality is dropping.
Everything I’ve been able to find to do with shaping/QoS has applied to an edge router device not to a wireless bridge in the middle of a network, and usually the first step suggested is turn on the firewall so you can mangle packets. We have no need for the firewall to be running on this bridge so I’m looking for suggestions on how to guarantee some bandwidth for the VoIP VLAN or conversely obey existing QoS tags on the packets. I’d feel better if I could actually guarantee a couple of Mb/s for VoIP though.
What I’ve found with queue’s is you can specify a maximum rate but not a minimum. That would mean I would have to limit the private and public subnets down to less than half the 100Mb each to be able to guarantee some bandwidth for the VoIP subnet. What I’d prefer to do is allow them to use almost all of it assuming no one else is, except for a small amount set aside for VoIP
Thanks