56xx and VLANs... 1

[kristiandg]

I've got a question about Avaya's IP phones and VLANs.

When the IP phone is being set up, it can be assigned to VLAN, say, 21. However, I want my computer that is plugged into the phone's switch port to stay on VLAN 1. This is because I'm also prioritizing network traffic based on VLAN. Typically, phones hang out in their own VLAN, so I'm sure Avaya has thought of this.

How have others done it?

Thanks in advance...

Kris G.

 

[telemach]

Avaya Phones will always take the tagged VLAN for theirselves (eg. 21) and the untagged VLAN for the cascaded PCs
So you will have to configure a Switchport to be native (untagged) in VLAN 1 and be a tagged member port of VLAN 21 for the phones.

hope this helps

cheerz
ben

 

[Escorthosis]

If you setting it using DHCP, you can add the site specific option 176 (SSON176)to both your native- and your
VLan ip-adress-scope and add the option l2qvlan=21 to both
scopes.
The phone will boot in the data VLan, gets the DHCP information. So it will have a temporarily data-vlan ipadres and also a tag that is will be in vlan21.
Then the IP-Phone reboots and gets another IP-Adres of the VLan21 adress-scope.

The specific options are documented in the Lan-Administrator quide of Avaya.

It will involve some serious talking to the IT-quys who set up the DHCP Server, but saves a lot of manually configuration on all IP-Phones.

I just build a site with 166 IP-Phones and this setup worked like a treat.

 

[Apexis]

Recently setup a few sites just as others have described here. Let us know how it goes.