I have two residents (ok, a house and a cabin) and I want to have phone service shared between both.
Both have DSL or PONs networking. And I can have a AstLinux box as the border appliance at both. However, only one has a static IP address, and that one is physically closest to the Softswitch that I peer with. I was wondering about a few things... I could set up the house with the Astlinux PBX peering with the Coppercom softswitch... and then set up the cabin to have a subnet that my hard SIP phones sit on... and connect that subnet with the SIP phones back to the house via a VPN connection (privacy for voice traffic isn't really an issue, so I could use ESP/NULL tunneling). The cabin has networking, but the switch that I'm using doesn't understand 802.1q tagging (VLANs), so I would have to set up the VLANs on the Astlinux box at the cabin (the "satellite" or "remote" Astlinux box). It wouldn't run Asterisk, it would just bridge subnets with VPN. It supports VLANs, I take it. So that shouldn't be an issue. I can have all laptops, desktops, etc. run on VLAN 1 natively, and program my SIP hardphones to run on VLAN 2. Oh, and it would have to DHCP server. Question about dnsmasq: when you're using "reserved" IP addresses, do the addresses still need to fall inside the bounds of $DHCPRANGE (e.g. 192.168.0.100 - 192.168.0.252)? Or are reserved addresses expected to be in the 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.99 range? Thanks, -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
