[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 79XX and VLANS

[Ron Wellsted]

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Matthew Boehm wrote:
> Hey gang,
>  We have about 30 Cisco 79XX phones all running latest 7.5 SIP. We are
> also using all Cisco Switches and Routers. Everything works great except
> that when you reboot a phone it takes like 3-5 minutes for it to come up.
> 
>  The phones spend tons of time 'Configuring VLAN..' We don't run any
> VLANs. Is there some way to skip this?
> 
>  In the 'Network Settings' I have both 'Operational VLAN Id' and 'Admin
> VLAN Id' set to blank values.
> 
>  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 

It should be well worth configuring the switches for voice and data
VLANs and using QoS to give the voice VLAN priority.

This should give the side effect of getting the phones to reboot
quicker, as they are waiting for CDP packets from the switches.

How often are you rebooting the phones? The last time I had to reboot
the phones was to upgrade to SIP 7.5

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