[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 forgets VLAN setting

[Ron Wellsted]

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Stefan Gofferje wrote:
> Ron Wellsted schrieb:
> 
>> I have being seeing an interesting problem.  We have and Asterisk
>> 1.0.5 server driving some Cisco 7960s with SIP 7.3 firmware, via a
>> Netgear FSM7326P switch.  We have configured the network to work with
>> data on VLAN 1 and VoIP on VLAN 2.  Every few days, a phone will
>> forget it's VLAN configuration and change themselves to VLAN 0.  As a
>> result they can no longer communicate with the Asterisk server.
>>
>> Has anybody seen any similar problems?
>>
>> If so, what is the solution?
> 
> 
> Do you configure the phones via menu or via TFTP? The Cisco phones tend
> to look for a TFTP server to refresh their config from time to time
> (configurable). I would guess, your problem has something to do with
> that. IF you use TFTP, double check the config files for the VLAN settings.
> A very easy solution would be to use a Cisco switch (2950 is the
> cheapest) as it automatically configures Cisco phones to the right VLAN
> (the voice VLAN configured in the switch).

The VLAN has been configured on the phone, the rest of the config comes
from the tftp server.  I was unable to find any way of setting the vlan
via the tftp server.

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