[dbpathome]

Has anyone ever tried using 2 DSL Modems on the same network. One strictly for Voice and the other one strictly for Data?

I want to use the same Cat5 Network to tie Voice and Data together Intranet, but I want to use a seperate DSL modem for all my voice lines, therefore eleiminating all QOS issues with data being on the same line.

Obviously one router/gateway would give out ip addresses and the other one would just sit there with a static IP.

But would this work? Can I just point my SIP/Asterisk Box to the one gateway and that's the only Internet connection it would use? Or am I missing Something.

Any advice if you've tried this would be apreciated.

[mberlant]

It took me a moment to sort out in my head what you are wanting to do, and have concluded that it is certainly possible.

I recommend that you leave the "active" router dedicated for data workstations and dedicate the "fixed" router to voice services.

You will need to give each voice device, including that router, a unique LAN IP address that is not in the DHCP server space of the data router. So, if the data router's LAN address is 192.168.0.1, I would set the voice router's address to 192.168.0.2.

Then you will need to manually set each voice device with a unique IP address and set that device's gateway (and DNS) to 192.168.0.2 to get it to send its outbound traffic via the voice router.

Let us know how you make out.