Vonage phone service on a network with Fedora...

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 23:20:16 -0400,
  Mail Llists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> 
>    It wants to do packet shaping and own your bandwidth - with cable
> this is toally unneeded - probably uneeded even with DSL these days - it
> has nothing to do with opening ports - it tunnels out and maintains a
> tunnel for itself to the vonage server.

Not that the device they supply is likely to be any good, but you certainly
do want packet shaping if you are using voice while having significant
other network traffic. You don't want large queues of packets building
up so that voice packets get delayed. Even single large packets can be
a problem, typically on the uplink which normal has a lower bandwidth limit.