[Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP-500 Network Problems

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Matt Hohman wrote:
> at our company and have had the weirdest thing happen.  When the power
> is unplugged to the supplied inline injector on the Polycom IP-500's
> ALL traffic on our local network just "dies" no packets are able to
> route any where. We are using 5 Netgear FSM726S (10/100 managed switch

Yes, we have seen this exact same behavior. When the phone is plugged in 
to the network without a power source, it causes the switch it's plugged 
into to become useless. I have not tried these phones plugged into a 
multi-switch network, so I can't comment on that part.