[Asterisk-Users] SIP phones with dual ethernet.

[Tomas Prybil]

Nicolas Bougues wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:36:41PM +0100, starmail at prybil.se wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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OK  so no really clean anwer to the problem.
How would you "roll out" a SIP based VoIP platform to to endusers with 
various connection solutions. Is there such a thing that solves the 
various issues of NATting a phone?

/t