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

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

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