Hi All,
Hope someone can help here. First, a little back story.
Switched a client over to VoIP, and am having some trouble with call quality and dropped transfers. VoIP provider is blaming that on the Sonicwall, they prefer Adtran. We finally broke down and bought one, but want to also use a separate WAN connection for the phones. We have a 5x5 Ethernet Over Copper circuit that is pretty solid that will be used for the phones, and a 25/5 MB business class cable connection that we will use for day to day internet. Im going to keep the Sonicwall connected to the Cable WAN, and want to connect the Adtran to the EoC circuit. Now since there will be 2 routers, I decided that we need to run DHCP on the Adtran to hand out IPs and gateway to the phones. Each desk has 2 ports, one for PoE Ethernet, and one standard Ethernet. All the PoE Ethernet runs back to the PoE switch and the standard Ethernet runs back to a different switch. Since I can separate the 2 networks physically, I decided that it wouldn't be a problem running 2 DHCP servers, one giving out 1.X addresses to the computers and one giving out 2.X addresses to the phones. But because they need to be physically separated (so computers don't pickup 2.X addresses) , I see no way of accessing the "phone" network from the "computer" network for management of the phones, and configuration of the router. I know I could setup a machine specifically with a 2.X address and keep it physically connected to that network but that is not ideal. So my questions are:
Is there a better way to do this than what Im currently planning?
Is there a way to access the 2.X network from the 1.X network by connecting them but not letting the DHCP through?
Thanks in advance for your help!
J