On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Drew Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Michaelson wrote: >> I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating >> voice and data networks is in the Real World. >> >> What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? >> DIscussions of pros and cons are most welcome by me. >> >> Experiences, anybody? >> > > We chose to go with a segregated network and certainly don't regret the > choice. Voice and data are on separate ports at the desk, avoiding QoS > issues completely and reducing confision amongst users who still expect > separate Phone and Computer plugs on the wall. > The traffic does run through the same switches and inter-switch trunks > but always on distinct VLANs. > > My experience with connecting the desktop computer through the phone has > been very poor. Audio breaks up when the computer does large data transfers. > > "Yes, Sir. I'll just look that up in our > datab...ba....ba.....ba....sssss.....ssssss......ssssss......se" > > In addition our users require gigabit to the desktop. The phones are 100Mb. > > Worst part is the few Cisco phones we have insist on "searching for > VLAN" (which doesn't exist) for 5 minutes on startup. Hopefully they > will be replaced through attrition but despite being over-priced, > over-featured and proprietary, Cisco do build robust kit. Sigh..... > > regards, > > Drew >
Drew, Disable CDP on the phone and that will go away. I know you said you're not using VLANs but... You can use CDP and set your voice-vlan on Cisco switches. Or... you can install cdp-tools on a Linux box and have it advertise a voice vlan for you! http://gpl.internetconnection.net/ I added the voice vlan support to cdp-tools. ;) -- Kristian Kielhofner http://blog.krisk.org http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.astlinux.org http://www.star2star.com _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
