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Accessing different VLANs

bigpomaha
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Excuse my ignorance but we are moving from All HP switches to All Cisco and the lingo is a bit different.  On the HP's Ijust had to go to the VLAN port config and TAG or UNTAG ports for whatever VLAN they were on.  Not quite sure what the terminology is with Cisco.  Anyhow, here is my issue.  I have a switch that is PRIMRILY going to be on VLAN 10 (data) but most ports will have to be able to access VLAN 20 (Phones, since some of the PC's hang off the phones). Below is what i have set for all the ports currently.  What do i need to add for those ports that require VLAN 20?  Thanks again!!

 vlan internal allocation policy ascending
!
vlan 10
!
vlan 20
name PHONES
!
vlan 30-32,40
!
vlan 50
name CORDLESSPHON
!
vlan 60
name CAMERAS
!
vlan 65
name SERVERS
!
vlan 70
name MANAGEMENT
!
vlan 85 

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/2
switchport access vlan 10
switchport mode access
load-interval 30
spanning-tree portfast

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If the Mitel phones support the functionality that Joseph describes in which they boot up in the default/native vlan and then learn from a DHCP parameter what vlan they should be in and join that vlan then I do not see much bad from configuring all the access ports with the voice vlan 20. As Joseph says it might send a small amount of traffic to these ports which was not needed but I do not consider that serious.

Years ago I worked with a customer who had Mitel phones. I suggested the alternative of voice vlan but the Mitel engineer did not want to use that and requested that we configure the ports as trunk ports which allow only two vlans, the native/data vlan and a tagged vlan for phones. I configured the ports that way and it worked. I do not know if that would be the case with current generations of Mitel phones or whether they would support the voice vlan approach.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick