LLDP and NEC phones on CIsco 2060s

[Brett Verney]

Hi guys,

I'm about to connect NEC handsets to a 2960s access switches. My goal is to have the NEC phones boot up in the voice VLAN specified with the 'switchport voice vlan x' command, without first getting an IP address or broadcasting in the 'data/access' VLAN.

I've used CDP to achieve this with Cisco phones previously. is it as simple as enabling LLDP on a Cisco switch to achieve the same thing with NEC phones?

Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# lldp run
Switch(config)# end

Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# interface gigabitethernet0/1
Switch(config-if)# lldp transmit
Switch(config-if)# lldp receive
Switch(config-if)# end

Is there anything else I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance

-Brett

[Mark Malone · Accepted solution]

They basically do the exact same thing , what you have there above should be fine

white paper differences and similarities of how both CDP and LLDP work between the 2 features

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk652/tk701/technologies_white_paper0900aecd804cd46d.html