[asterisk-users] Asterisk Support Question

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Jonathan Creasy wrote:

> If it is one of the ones I am familiar with it's only one ethernet
> interface and it's literally a switch on a PCI card. The system sees one
> interface and there are 4 ports out the back.
>
> If this is the case it's not really "instead of a switch" so it will
> work fine.

Anyone care to tell give me a part number/product code/manufacturer?

As I'd be intersted in this too...

I have used a 4-port Ethernet card in the past - D-Link using the sundance 
drivers, but while I used them successfully under the 2.4 kernel, I've 
never been able to use them under 2.6 )-:

(And using the kernels 802.1d features, you can turn individual ethernet 
interfaces into a switch, not as efficient as a switch, but there you go, 
and it's worked well for me in the past)

Gordon

  >
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
> Goran Donev wrote:
>> I am thinking of building an Asterisk PBX, and had a question on a piece of
>> hardware support. I want to include a 4 port PCI 10/100 Switch router card.
>> For those not familiar it's a PCI card that acts as a switch. My question is
>> would I be able to configure those 4 ports to support sip phones plugged in
>> directly to the asterisk box instead of a switch.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
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