how to use dual broadband coonection for asterisk

tsm

my office has 3 broadband
PCCW 30/30M optical
HGC    10/10M VDSL
Wharf  4/4M  ADSL?

for elastix, there is only 1 gateway
any ching has any idea so that
elastix can use different broadband for loadbalancing or ...

any idea?

雯雯

回復 1# tsm

有沒有用Multi-Wan router? 我住家也是這樣用.

ckleea

要看你想點用？

If you use load balancing, you can use as usual but careful about the registration of sip trunk like HKBN2b account

If you use fail over, it would be more complicated and I have no idea right now
I believe, you need to use externhost instead of externip in sip.conf to avoid problems

There are also other ways to play with multiple wans. In my case, I can map one external ip to one asterisk or ATA device such as OBi...

tsm

回復 2# 雯雯

to my very limited knowledge
most multiwan router is not load balancing, but failover
and in most case, it will heavy rely on 1 wan instead of both

雯雯

回復 4# tsm

我用Draytek和D-Link既router係用load balance mode.

ckleea

Depend on the mode you choose. You can use either load balancing or failover. But you need to plan for what you want. Sometimes, you may want a mixture.