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Re: Re: Basic VoIP questions
On 27/05/2004 at 13:55 Patrick Lidstone wrote:
>
>No doubt Andy will have wider experience to draw on, but my personal
>experience suggests that it is not possible to have more than 1 phone
>per fixed IP address registered with an external service in the way
>you describe. The reasons for this are involved, but basically boil
>down the fact that the SIP service provider (FWD, etc) will use your
>fixed IP address as the key for managing the connection (irrespective
>of whether or not you happen to have a STUN aware router).
>
>Running asterisk at each site would indeed solve the problem. You
>could also join the sites via VPN and then run a single asterisk box
>serving both sites.
>
>Patrick
Yup that about sums it up... there is one caveat tho. VPN's cause
fragmentation
of voip packets but this is only really noticable on high volume voip
links...
Andy
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