[Asterisk-Users] SIP phones with dual ethernet.

[Nicolas Bougues]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:36:41PM +0100, starmail at prybil.se wrote:
>
> Some vendors sells phones with dual ethernet ports. Are these just
> incorporating a hub/switch functionality? The reason for my question is
> that the normal case for a DSL customer is the possibilty to use one MAC
> adress from their service.  With MAC cloning or other functionality this
> could  work out to be a solution.
>

The Grandstream 102 phone has 2 ports, with what seems to be a 10 Mbps
switch inbetween. However, it does as well support PPPoE in the
firmware. I'm not sure what it's meant for and/or how it actually works.

I suppose the phone can sit itself right behind an Ethernet DSL modem
with this setup, but I'm not sure whether/how it enables a standard PC
to work on the other ethernet port.

-- 
Nicolas Bougues
Axialys Interactive