Routing & QoS
Networking’s Blocking & Tackling VistaWiz is a flexible platform that can perform routing tasks or simply pass traffic as a transparent bridge. VistaWiz’s routing capabilities enable administrators to:
“VistaWiz’s QoS feature is simple, yet effective” Rick Vanover, TechRepublic With routing, you can turn your VistaWiz Server from a transparent bridge into a router, providing router-related services such as Internet connection sharing. VistaWiz routing is open source and free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). VistaWiz's routing allows all hosts to share internet access via Network Address Translation (NAT), and also provides DHCP and DNS services and advanced routing capabilities. The administrator can configure NAT, as well as related redirect rules, and DMZ host settings. The administrator can also add static DHCP and DNS entries, as well as custom routes to support more complicated networks. QoS is a great way for administrators to improve VoIP call quality and ensure that critical apps have priority access to bandwidth. VistaWiz QoS enables administrators to create a pool of bandwidth that is reserved for critical apps. Administrators can decide what percentage of their bandwidth to reserve depending on the size/type of their connections and the intensity of critical apps they intend to run concurrently. By segmenting services into high, medium and low priority queues, administrators can minimize interruptions to sensitive apps (VoIP, SSH, VNC, RDP, etc.) from bandwidth intensive downloads or websites (Youtube, etc.) that may be lower priority. For more QoS info see the QoS wiki page.  Note: As of the 5.1 release, Router is no longer a stand-alone application. The networking functions are accessed by selecting the "Networking" button that can be found under the left hand Config tab. |

