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

[Leif Neland]

Jeff LaCoursiere skrev:
> 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
>
>   
On my laptop I just used the controlpanel -> network connections , 
marked wireless and build-in card, rightclicked and selected "bridge 
networks".
Then I plugged my ip-phone in the laptop, and my phone was connected via 
wlan.

So at least in Vista it's built in.

Leif