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Author Softphone versus Hardphone Vlan Constraint
Nasser Khwaja

2005-09-23, 7:45 am

Hi,
I already have cisco IP Hard phones working within a VOICE VLAN together
with the CallManager, and the PCs in a DATA VLAN.
Now I need to install Softphones on PCs; and since these PCs are in the Data
Vlan subnet, my question is How do my cisco Softphones get the dialtone from
the CallManager which is in a separate Voice Vlan subnet?

Your response will be appreciated.
Thanks
-Tennisman

Ryan Ratliff

2005-09-23, 5:45 pm

If you are routing between the data and voice vlans then there should
be no issue. If you are not routing between the two then that is a
problem.

-Ryan

On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Nasser Khwaja wrote:

Hi,
I already have cisco IP Hard phones working within a VOICE VLAN
together with the CallManager, and the PCs in a DATA VLAN.
Now I need to install Softphones on PCs; and since these PCs are in
the Data Vlan subnet, my question is How do my cisco Softphones get
the dialtone from the CallManager which is in a separate Voice Vlan
subnet?

Your response will be appreciated.
Thanks
-Tennisman

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Vincent De Keyzer

2005-09-23, 5:45 pm

So the softphones are in the data vlan?

I would have imagined that they would make the PC behave like a true IP
phone: have a trunk to the switch, listen to the CDP advertisement of the
voice VLAN, and tag the outgoing voice packets with it (leaving the data
packets untagged)...

Now wouldn't that be nice?

Vincent


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-
> bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Ratliff
> Sent: vendredi 23 septembre 2005 15:28
> To: Nasser Khwaja
> Cc: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Softphone versus Hardphone Vlan Constraint
>
> If you are routing between the data and voice vlans then there should
> be no issue. If you are not routing between the two then that is a
> problem.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Nasser Khwaja wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I already have cisco IP Hard phones working within a VOICE VLAN
> together with the CallManager, and the PCs in a DATA VLAN.
> Now I need to install Softphones on PCs; and since these PCs are in
> the Data Vlan subnet, my question is How do my cisco Softphones get
> the dialtone from the CallManager which is in a separate Voice Vlan
> subnet?
>
> Your response will be appreciated.
> Thanks
> -Tennisman
>
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Ryan Ratliff

2005-09-23, 5:45 pm

While that would be a neat feature you'd have to have a NIC with the
ability to handle the dot1q tagged packets. I'm sure this would
prevent most laptop users from using the software.

-Ryan

On Sep 23, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Vincent De Keyzer wrote:

So the softphones are in the data vlan?

I would have imagined that they would make the PC behave like a true IP
phone: have a trunk to the switch, listen to the CDP advertisement of
the
voice VLAN, and tag the outgoing voice packets with it (leaving the data
packets untagged)...

Now wouldn't that be nice?

Vincent



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-
> bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Ratliff
> Sent: vendredi 23 septembre 2005 15:28
> To: Nasser Khwaja
> Cc: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Softphone versus Hardphone Vlan Constraint
>
> If you are routing between the data and voice vlans then there should
> be no issue. If you are not routing between the two then that is a
> problem.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Nasser Khwaja wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I already have cisco IP Hard phones working within a VOICE VLAN
> together with the CallManager, and the PCs in a DATA VLAN.
> Now I need to install Softphones on PCs; and since these PCs are in
> the Data Vlan subnet, my question is How do my cisco Softphones get
> the dialtone from the CallManager which is in a separate Voice Vlan
> subnet?
>
> Your response will be appreciated.
> Thanks
> -Tennisman
>
> ________________________________________
_______
> cisco-voip mailing list
> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
>
>
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>


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