Found this on freepbx.org (Setting DSCP (ToS) bits on your voice packets ) to prioritise your VOIP packets.
Provided you are running Asterisk/Trixbox with 'standard' ports - otherwise alter applicable, insert following into your startup (/etc/rc.d/rc.local or the like:/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p udp -m udp --sport 4569 -j DSCP --set-dscp-class ef /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p udp -m udp --sport 10000:20000 -j DSCP --set-dscp-class ef /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p udp -m udp --sport 5060 -j DSCP --set-dscp-class ef