[Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

[Bob Goddard]

On Thursday 23 Feb 2006 17:30, Colin Anderson wrote:
> I have to provision several dozen * users to a seperate building on our
> campus in the same subnet. Ordinarily, I'd just run a gigabit cat6 cable to
> another switch if it doesn't violate the 100 metre rule, but this building
> is several hundred metres away from my backbone. My only option for cabling
> to the remote building is copper. My plan is to provision them with a Linux
> bridge with 4 NIC's: 1 gigabit to the backbone, and three bonded together
> as a single interface (90 mbit aggregate), then plugged into this dealie:
>
> http://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=425,1423,1424&mid=4946
>
> At the remote building, the reverse: another Linux box with 4 NIC's that
> de-aggregates the link to a gigabit connection on a switch, and then to the
> wall plates. I'm pretty sure this will work for data no problem, but I'm a
> little concerned about latency on a timing-sensitive applicaiton like VoIP.
>
> Anyone have experience with VoIP over bonded link? Is there a gotcha? Is
> this a stupid idea? On my whiteboard it looks fine!

It's stupid. Don't ever connect 2 different building with copper.
Just wait until you get some kind of lightening hit or electrical
fault, but make sure you are no where near it. Use fibre.


B

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