[Asterisk-Users] Vlan question

[Steven P. Donegan]

tmeeks at che-llp.com wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am setting up an Asterisk system with Cisco 7960 phones.  I have a 
> PoE injector to insert between the patch panel and HP 2626 switch.  I 
> plan to plug the users pc into the phone and the phone into the wall. 
>  I would like the phones to have a seperate subnet from the phones for 
> performance reasons.
>
> May be a silly question, but with the pc and phone sharing the same 
> switch port, how will it know to seperate the traffic and subnets?
>
> Thanks
>
> tm
>
>
> ID:[{20040813172548.30403.1811044938-12.6.18.86}]
>
2 VLANS on the same wire will run into the same congestion/traffic that 
otherwise would exist on 1 network on 1 wire. So unless there is 
separate backbone type trunking over which the 2 VLANS will travel it's 
a waste of energy to do this...