I was hoping to prioritize sip packets using packet mark/connection mark.
But as I already use PCQ load balancing feature these tags are used currently by the load balancer. Whenever I try to mark these packets It overwrites the PCQ mark and the packet doesn't get routed.
Is there anyway I can prioritize my SIP packets but keep the PCQ intact?


Thanks very much for your help


Dom

Grescho I'm not following you exactly. If you want to prioritize your SIP packets then you'll need to apply a different packet mark and add a new queue for those packets. What do you mean when you say the packet doesn't get routed? Are you using a different routing table?

Post up your firewall mangle and queue tree configuration so we can better help you.

Grescho I'm not following you exactly. If you want to prioritize your SIP packets then you'll need to apply a different packet mark and add a new queue for those packets. What do you mean when you say the packet doesn't get routed? Are you using a different routing table?

Post up your firewall mangle and queue tree configuration so we can better help you.

If i do a packet mark, it overwrites the current packet-mark which is used for the PCQ??
I'll post my mangle and queue tree in a min

Use DSCP.

You mean packet mark for PCC (Per Connection Classifier) load balance, and not PCQ (Per Connection Queue) for bandwidth sharing, right?

For PCC you only need mark-connection and mark-routing, so this leaves mark-packet for HTB queue. For HTB queue using mark-connection and mark-packet is better, uses less CPU, but it will work with just mark-packet.

If you still need mark-packet for something else, or you want to use mark-connection, all I can think of is implementing a metarouter / KVM with HTB queue.

Yeah sorry. I did mean PCC.
What you are saying about packet mark seems like a good idea. I'll look into that and report on my findings.

What is DSCP?