[asterisk-users] Using voice modem as poor man's FXO in Asterisk 1.8

[Daniel Tryba]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:41:38PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Indeed, most motherboards do come with Ethernet on board.  This one came
> with one gigabit Ethernet interface.  However, we needed another for a
> connection to an ADSL router (acting in bridged mode so we do the PPPoE
> directly).  Thus, a 10/100Mbps Ethernet card was installed to provide
> the second port needed.

You can free the PCI slot if you use VLANs on the internal interface
to seperate the internal and external traffic. This requires a switch
with vlan support, shouldn't could much more than $80.

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   Daniel Tryba