On Thursday 23 Feb 2006 17:30, Colin Anderson wrote: > I have to provision several dozen * users to a seperate building on our > campus in the same subnet. Ordinarily, I'd just run a gigabit cat6 cable to > another switch if it doesn't violate the 100 metre rule, but this building > is several hundred metres away from my backbone. My only option for cabling > to the remote building is copper. My plan is to provision them with a Linux > bridge with 4 NIC's: 1 gigabit to the backbone, and three bonded together > as a single interface (90 mbit aggregate), then plugged into this dealie: > > http://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=425,1423,1424&mid=4946 > > At the remote building, the reverse: another Linux box with 4 NIC's that > de-aggregates the link to a gigabit connection on a switch, and then to the > wall plates. I'm pretty sure this will work for data no problem, but I'm a > little concerned about latency on a timing-sensitive applicaiton like VoIP. > > Anyone have experience with VoIP over bonded link? Is there a gotcha? Is > this a stupid idea? On my whiteboard it looks fine!
It's stupid. Don't ever connect 2 different building with copper. Just wait until you get some kind of lightening hit or electrical fault, but make sure you are no where near it. Use fibre. B -- http://www.mailtrap.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
