Thanks. There will be a dedicated adsl2+ annex-m just for voice. I'll use a reasonable router firewall - mikrotik rb750g looks worth a shot. I have good experience of the rb450g.
Tony Graziano <[email protected]> wrote: only 1 network card is supported. you should employees a firewall in front and since you only have a single small connection you should also enact adequate traffic shaping on your firewall to ensure voice traffic gets priority. On May 11, 2011 6:44 PM, "Carl Farrington" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Can somebody give me some recommendations on NIC configuration on a small (15 > user) deployment with a dedicated DSL line for the ITSP trunk? My background > is really in Asterisk & FreePBX, and I have to date configured those systems > with a dedicated WAN NIC, and either a separate LAN for the handsets, or > sharing the same LAN as the PCs, with the necessary boot parameters added to > Windows' DHCP server. > > With the users having a nice sipX web portal, the PCs will need some kind of > connectivity to the sipX box. > > I can see various different ways of doing it, but I don't want to head down > one method, only to come across a problem later on. Should I have the entire > VoIP system on a separate network, and connect the spare NIC from the sipX > box onto the Windows LAN just to allow users access to the web portal? If I > do this, then I would have to share a single NIC with the handsets and the > WAN connection to the ITSP. Or should I be looking to have the phones on the > same IP & physical network as the computers, and the second NIC as a > dedicated WAN connection to the ITSP (as I do with Asterisk)? I think I'm > mostly confused because of all the different network ports and SIP services > being run by the system, and also the notion that the handsets may be invited > to communicate directly with the ITSP. > > Simple question: do the handsets need an IP route to the ITSP, or can all the > traffic go through the sipX box? > > Anybody using single-NIC sipX boxes? > > Also, unrelated, are there recommendations for numbering schemes? I can see > the default for extensions is 2xx, but what about rings groups? If I opt to > use 3xx, I may find that this conflicts with some other feature somewhere > along the way. > > Sorry for such elementary questions! > > thanks, > Carl
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