[geeks] Phone system suggestions?
    Sandwich Maker 
    adh at an.bradford.ma.us
       
    Tue Sep 27 11:12:02 CDT 2005
    
    
  
" From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
" 
" On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:31:10AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
" 
" > One school of thought says "two separate LANs" another says "one LAN, 
" > but with QoS to ensure VOIP gets its packets in a timely fashion".
" 
" Since the difference is a switch, it makes sense to use two seperate lans.
" 
" The phone switch should be on both of them so that people can use 
" "soft" phones, e.g. phone emulators that run on pcs.
otoh security best practices suggest at least separate vlans so that
it's not possible to sniff/hack one from the other.
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