Multiple routing on Single PC

[paulcolmer]

Hi guys ,

I have a set of 6 PC's same LAN, connectivity via DSL. If i load soft phones onto each PC i know all will be OK. What im looking to do is try and route the soft phones to another router on the LAN. so the internet on the PC's is routed via original DSL and the VoIP on the soft phones is routed to another DSL or similar WAN connection.

This obviously creates a routing issue because the phone & PC are sharing the same IP.

Any thoughts.

 

[durbandave]

Port /protocol routing

Hi guys ,

I have a set of 6 PC's same LAN, connectivity via DSL. If i load soft phones onto each PC i know all will be OK. What im looking to do is try and route the soft phones to another router on the LAN. so the internet on the PC's is routed via original DSL and the VoIP on the soft phones is routed to another DSL or similar WAN connection.

This obviously creates a routing issue because the phone & PC are sharing the same IP.

Any thoughts.

Route the traffic for the softphones via protocol or port numbers.

 

[stricken]

you need a gateway - a pc (linux) acting as a router - that has the two DSL connections coming into it (via ethernet probably). Then you can route certain IP ranges over different interfaces and hence different DSL connections. This also allows you to filter traffic / sites / etc and acts as a firewall.

 

[bboy]

I dunno what soft phones are but I am going to assume its some VOIP software loaded onto the pc.
Now I would imagine they all connect to some central server on the internet, if so and you can find the IP for that server then you can add a static route on your pc's.

Lets say the softphone server is on the internet at address 80.10.10.10
You default DSL router is 192.168.1.1
Other DSL router is 192.168.1.2

You can then run the command "route add 80.10.10.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2" your traffic going to the 80.10.10.x range will then use the other gateway.

The problem is if your softphone software connects to all sorts of servers/clients. Then you need some kind of intelligent gateway that can handle the traffic on its side based on port etc etc

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Routing seems the best answer here but have you asked your VoIP supplier what there suggestion would be?
Often thay have had problems like this and the solution my be even simpler.

Regards

Tim

 

[ponder]

Windows is not the best environment for this. You are better of with dedicated linux gateway or something like RouterOS.

 

[paulcolmer]

Thanks for all the options guys, i think the way to go is a dedicated dual WAN router, im sure i can drive this through a Microtik or similar.
Paul

 

[froot]

Thanks for all the options guys, i think the way to go is a dedicated dual WAN router, im sure i can drive this through a Microtik or similar.
Paul

Yup. It's the easiest in terms of "plug and play".