On 6/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marty Mastera</b> <<a href="mailto:marty@m3resources.com">marty@m3resources.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>Any recommendations on an economical layer 3 switch?
Preferably something that you have hands on experience with connecting to IP
phones with attached PCs? Specifically I need the ability to set the VLAN in
the phone to tag voice packets and to set a native VLAN on a per port basis on
the switch to put the untagged packets from the attached PC into a separate
VLAN.</p>
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<p>POE is not a requirement but if you have suggestions for an
economical layer 3 switch with POE I'd be glad to hear them…so far
I'm looking at the SFE2000 from Linksys.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I'm using a SFE2000 with PoE with Asterisk. Besides * and my management box (MySQL, ARI, Queuemetrics, etc.), I have the 10 desk phones that I need PoE for plugged into it, a mix of GXP2000, Linksys SPA941 and a couple of Aastra 480i and 9133i units. One of the things that sold me on it was that it can do 185W across all ports; you're not stuck giving 7W or 15W to each port (which was a problem with many models I looked at and limits you to only 12 of 24 ports getting power). I'm told the Grandsteams pull about 4W, and since that's the phone with the widest deployment, I expect to be able to drive 24 per switch eventually.
<br><br>So far I've had no problems with it, though I'm not using it's layer 3 functionality. I trunk two VLANs to a Baystack layer 3 switch, which was pretty simple to set up and has worked properly ever since. My setup doesn't have both tagged and untagged packets coming into the same port, so I can't speak to that. The configuration certainly seems to support it, and I suspect that the default "admit all / no ingress filter" combined with the fact that every port has to have a PVID assigned means that it would work pretty much out of the box after you configure your VLAN numbers.
<br><br>The UI interface needs some improvement. It's not quite sure if it's a linksys or a cisco right now. You can make all the configuration via a Web GUI as you would with a typical Linksys SOHO router, but if you don't go to "Admin -> File Management -> Copy Files" and choose to copy "running-config" to "startup-config" (using drop-down boxes, naturally), it loses all your changes on reboot. :)
<br></div></div><br>If you have other questions, feel free to contact me off-list.<br><br>-- <br>j.