On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:16:56PM +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> What's the concern with them sharing the same ethernet segment?
>
> It's not performance, because a 14mbit ADSL connection is a drop in
> the ocean for 100/1000baseT. And I don't see how it could be
> security either, since the dirty internet IPs only exist in
> encapsulated form until they're decoded on the Linux gateway.
simplicity of the conceptual model.
like i said, it's only a preference, not a requirement. and it's mostly
an aesthetic preference, with some trivial convenience benefits.
so by "simplicity of the conceptual model" i really mean "i think it's
prettier this way" :)
i've had it set up with one NIC in the past.
> > i ended up buying a Linksys SPA3102 to do that job. it works well
> > enough, except i can't make it reliably forward the caller-id info
> > to asterisk.
>
> Ah, I bought one of those guys as well; was never quite happy with it
> either and ended up giving up on the Asterisk/Freeswitch integration
> and going it alone, and then giving up on voip-to-pots altogether and
> just using a damn voip client on my laptop.
i'm happy enough with it.
the main reason i want to port the POTS number to a VOIP provider is
cost. the voice line costs $33/month inc GST at the moment. if i ported
it to, say, faktortel it would cost $3/month. i'd rather spend that
$30/month on something else. anything else.
