Extend DSL to computer using switch

[jlvollmer]

Hi there. I work for a K-12 school. We just built a new building 500 feet away from the old building. We want to relocate all our servers and routers over to the new building but our ISP equipment (an Ethernet Over Copper WAN used for our VoIP PBX serer, and DSL modem used for our internet) needs to stay in the old building. Right now the Ethernet Over Copper plugs directly into our PBX box, which is 30 feet away, and the DSL is plugged in to our Untangle server, also 30 feet away. But these servers are moving to the new building, 500 feet away.

The 2 buildings are connected with fiber using two HP v1910g smart switches with layer 3 routing capabilities.

I know there must be a way to plug the WAN links into one switch, and at the other switch, plug the PBX box and Untangle box into the switch and have them connect that way, but I'm not sure of the term for this, or how this is supposed to be setup.

Thanks.

 

[bill001g]

At least you are ahead of the game and have fiber and switches, many people ask this question and have not solved that part.

Although there is a way to carry the DSL over a IP network it tends to not be cost effective. All you really have to do is create a new layer 2 vlan between the switches. You will have to leave the DSL device near its telephone line since that is the hard part to move. You would plug the DSL lan port into one switch on teh new vlan and then on the other switch plug the untangle server into a port on the same vlan. If your PBX connects directly to the dsl device also then you would just put 2 ports on vlan in the second building and user the second to plug he pbx into. You in effect have plugged these devices directly into the dsl device.

You need to think of vlans as long ethernet cables that you can assign to multiple ports on both switches.