[Asterisk-Users] Vlan question

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> I am setting up an Asterisk system with Cisco 7960 phones.  I 
> have a PoE injector to insert between the patch panel and HP 
> 2626 switch.  I plan to plug the users pc into the phone and 
> the phone into the wall.  I would like the phones to have a 
> seperate subnet from the phones for performance reasons. 
> 
> May be a silly question, but with the pc and phone sharing 
> the same switch port, how will it know to seperate the 
> traffic and subnets? 

Simple answer: It can't. You can assign 1 VLAN or tell it to use more VLAN's
and send the traffic tagged, but the switch will never know what packet
belongs where. Apparently, Cisco 7960 can do some VLAN voodoo if you have
them working with Cisco switches (proprietary stuff, fun eh).

Florian