10-03-2014 10:13 AM - edited 03-07-2019 08:58 PM
I have an unusual problem happening on two 2960X switches. VoIP calls are very poor quality (jittery, robotic sounding, "sounds like they are under water). Our first assumption was that the QoS needed some tweaking, but that wasn't the case.
Facts:
Last night we used a 2960S switch to test. We connected the 2960S to the same port on the 4510 one of the 2960X was using. We connected one of the phones experiencing issues and the quality was good. When then moved to the perimeter closet and repeated the test using the fiber connection from the 2960X uplink, phone was quality good. Next we moved the fiber back to the 2960X and plugged the same phone into it, phone quality poor (we expected it to be bad since nothing had changed). Since it was after hours, we shut every port on the 2960x but one port for the phone and the uplink, phone quality still bad.
At this point, we are stumped. I searched for known caveats but I didn't see any related to this issue. Lastly, I have 2960X stacks in other locations in our facility running the same version with exactly the same configuration.
Model: WS-C2960X-48FPS
SW Version: 15.0(2)EX5
Suggestions?
10-03-2014 11:29 AM
Hey,
What is the switch up time? Also have you tried reloading?
Regards,
RS.
10-04-2014 12:21 AM
Load a software-based VoIP and test. If the results are the same, it ain't the switch. It could potentially be your call server.
How is the call server set up? What happens if you put the phone and the call server in the same IP subnet?
10-09-2014 10:28 AM
Yes, we reloaded the switch (several times actually).
10-09-2014 10:43 AM
I have no idea why this has worked for us but...
We noticed the mac address table was not populating very many addresses. We removed spanning-tree portfast from all the switches in our network and the mac tables updated. We haven't been able to replicate the problem on the switches after we removed spanning-tree portfast.
10-30-2017 09:54 AM
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