[asterisk-users] Polycom VLAN

Wojciech Tryc wojtek at VoIPMan.ORG
Thu Jan 3 06:56:43 CST 2008


This is the whole point behind using VLAN on the phone. Tagged VLAN  
for your phone with QoS configured accordingly on your switch and  
untagged VLAN for your PC, both on the same wire. This way you can  
always guarantee enough bandwidth for your VoIP packets.

Thanks,
Wojtek

On 2-Jan-08, at 1:04 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jeremy Mann wrote:
>
>> Just curious, if I have my Polycom IP 550 phone VLAN tag 30, will the
>> packets I send from my PC(on the PC port of the phone) have the same
>> VLAN tag?  THe PC is sending untagged packets.
>
>   According to this --
>
>       http://www.polycom.com/common/documents/whitepapers/
>       vlans_and_polycom_soundpoint_ip_desktop_ip_telephones.pdf
>
>   "If a PC is connected to the phone, all packets generated by the  
> PC will
>    be passed through unmodified, regardless of the presence of an  
> 802.1q/p
>    tag or its contents. Since PCs do not typically tag frames, this  
> means
>    they will be on the native VLAN. "
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Alex Balashov
> Evariste Systems
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