[asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

[Andrew Hakman]

Windows, yes, but used to be through 3rd party software. Doubt this
has changed as Windows has no focus on any useful network anything.

Linux, yes, and it's definitely not complicated. Probably take 2
minutes to setup if you already had bridge utils installed, maybe 5 if
you had to install the package first.

Regardless, I would say this wouldn't be the best solution for the
reasons someone already mentioned - you form some dependency between
the phone and the PC.

2 cables is definitely the best, followed by a cheap gig switch at each desk.

Also, someone was mentioning if you could run 2 ethernet connections
through one cable. This works with 10/100 (as only 2 pairs are used,
so you can wire 2 pairs to one jack, and the other 2 pairs in the cat5
to the other jack), but doesn't work with gigabit, as it uses all 4
pairs. Even if you just consider 10/100, this is a nifty hack in a
pinch, but I seriously doubt anyone does this in a professional
install. Cable isn't all that expensive when it comes right down to
it.

Andrew

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at jeff.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Hans Witvliet wrote:
>
>>
>> If you connect your pc with GB-lan card to an dual-ported ip-phone, you
>> and up with an 100Mbps lan connection to your pc.
>>
>> Only way to avoid that, is to insert a cheap second lan-card in your pc,
>> and connect your phone to the second lan, so your pc will act as an
>> switch, instead of your phone...
>
> I'm curious - how have you managed to connect a second LAN card and have
> it bridge your (presumably onboard) ethernet?  Does Windows have such
> capability?  But I guess the OP was running XUbuntu, and though relatively
> complicated I guess you could get it to do that.
>
> j
>
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