Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 04:15:26 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <nathan@vidican.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Anyone setup a voip gateway before? Message-ID: <002301c14fea$8831ef40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200110062211.f96MB8o67262@mail.ipsnetwork.net>
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Hi Nathan, I've done this before using Cisco gear and in fact have an 827 4V here under my desk. Yes, you can use Ethernet to connect to the 827 instead of DSL. I've set this kind of thing up both as a trunk to an existing phone system and as an extension. The biggest problem you will run into is guarenteeing the line quality. If your U.S. Office and your Canadian office are connected to each other with a private line, such as a T1, frac T1, or Frame, then your fine. (unless it's 56K Frame or something really slow like that) Sound quality won't be crystal clear but it will be sufficiently useful to avoid paying the long distance fees (which is what I assume your trying to do) You may need to run some kind of bandwidth reservation protocol on a slower link. However, if your two offices are connected via a VPN over the Internet, or are directly connected via the Internet, then forget it. I know the Internet Phone people will come out of the woodwork yapping about how great Internet Phone is, but I think you will find that when people are paying for their own long distance calls they are a lot more tolerant of crappy connections if they can get them free, then employees are who are in a company that's paying the phone bills. If you want details then e-mail me. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nathan Vidican >Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 3:11 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: OT: Anyone setup a voip gateway before? > > >I'm looking to setup a relatively small voice-over-ip gateway, in order >to place a U.S. handset (to match that of the PBX system) in our >Canadian branch office. I need to be able to use this handset in the >same manner I could from the U.S. office. > I have not purchased any equipment as of yet, (including the PBX), >and I was wondering what anyone else might reccomend? I was thinking of >either the NBX (now 3com's product) LAN telephony system, or a newer >Cisco based system; however cost is the biggest concern here. > I was looking to maybe utilize two Cisco 827-V's over DSL lines to >the internet, but then I'd have to obtain a second connection at the >Canadian office; has anyone successfully connected to an 827-V using >some other router or device which can simply use ethernet instead of >DSL? That way I could simply assign the device a static IP address on >the Canadian network, and point the U.S. Cisco 827-v to it? > Anyhow, just a quick shout to see what anyone else may come up >with/have done already; before I go researching the he** out of a >product line that may or may not do what I want. I'm not on the list, >so if you could reply directly to me, and CC the list that'd be great :) > >-- >Nathan Vidican >Nathan@Vidican.com >http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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