> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dustin Goodwin > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone > > > Why wouldn't you just use your existing Ethernet > infrastructure putting > the IP phones inline between the wall jack and the PC? There are a > number of IP phones that have builtin switch/hub that allows > the PC to > daisy chain off the IP phone.
Probably because it's well known that these setups are prone to failure of either the PC's connection, the phone's connection, or degredation of one/both. It also breaks switch envirenments where spanning-tree portfast is enabled (not as big of a deal if the deployment is in concert with the infrastructure group, as it should be). Vendors should NEVER have implemented this functionality into phones unless it was working under all conditions. Personal experience shows that it is most definitely not on Cisco and 3Com products. Others have told me their stories with other manufacturer's equipment. None of it was good. It's not a production-stable way to deploy phones. Period. Daryl G. Jurbala BMPC Network Operations Tel (NY): +1 917 477 0468 x235 Tel (MI): +1 616 608 0004 x235 Tel (UK): +44 208 792 6813 x235 Fax: +1 508 526 8500 INOC-DBA: 26412*DGJ PGP Key: http://www.introspect.net/pgp _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users