Re: Prioritiesing Voice out of a PC using a soft phone?

From: Vince Mashburn (cciegroupstudy@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 15:46:45 ART


Are you using the IPCC agent software? If so, I believe that it tags the
traffic appropriately for you. It is built into the app. You can always
span a port and use Ethereal to verify though.

On 5/25/07, kaelwyoung@netscape.net <kaelwyoung@netscape.net> wrote:
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> Gavin,
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> B B B B B B B B B B If you enableB packet scheduler on the pc you also
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> The network control service cannot be requested through the GQoS API.
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> it can be requested by network management applications that use the
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> B B B B B There is more on the subject here:
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> http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/a9b9d7f3-ff08-4c49-b8a
> 7-b92e9ce080101033.mspx?mfr=true
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> B B B B B B B B B B B B Karl.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Lawson <GavinL@titan.net.au>
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Sent: Fri, 25 May 2007 3:20 am
> Subject: Prioritiesing Voice out of a PC using a soft phone?
>
>
>
>
> Hi GS
> I went to the local Cisco Office the other day to verify a unique VoIP
> PT design for one of our clients.
> To simplify things a call centre is piloting IP Telephony on PC's
> ne of the questions the SE asked me was if the PC's are prioritising
> he Voice traffic out?
> - I can confirm that packets are being marked correctly with CS3 and EF
> arkings, but reading further the operating system doesn't appear to
> ave any Priority Queue feature?? I have looked at the Windows XP "QoS
> acket Scheduler" but this appears to use RSVP and we aren't using this.
> Has anyone come across this before?
> as anyone had any previous experience with poor performance with Soft
> hones because of PC queuing?
> ny suggestions on reading material on this issue and ways to overcome
> t?
> nyone know what the standard FIFO queue depth is for a PC?
> NOTE: The pilot is running with 23 users at the moment and the users
> ays the voice quality is no better or worse than the TDM solution.
> GL
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