Voice VLAN provision

Back in 2007, I have used Cisco Switch to provision Mitel Voip phone, and phone will use a different VLAN than PC and share the same data drop. However, I forge the technical detail how the hell the Phone is smart enough to get a different VLAN.

Now, I know it is because CDP. Actually, the there are other options, such as DHCP VLAN provision. Polycom SIP phone support CDP as well. Here is the link.

Automatic Configuration of VLAN ID
In the Network Settings menu, there is another field called “CDP”; this controls whether the phone
supports the Cisco Discovery Protocol. Among many other things, CDP allows the Ethernet switch to
inform an IP phone what VLAN ID it should use without requiring manual configuration of each
phone.
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If CDP is enabled and a VLAN ID is also manually configured, any value received via CDP will
override the manual configuration. If no VLAN ID is received via CDP, the phone will fall back to the
configured value, if present, or to the native VLAN.
QoS Configuration
By default, the phone sends all audio packets with 802.1p tag and IP Precedence values of 5, which
is the highest priority level available for user traffic. This can be adjusted via the
qos.ethernet.rtp.user_priority and qos.ip.rtp.precedence values in the configuration files. Marking
audio packets with DSCP values is currently not supported.

More infomation avaiable at voip-info.org and this link

http://wiki.voiceroute.org/wiki/Overview_of_Auto-provisioning_Phones

Linksys SPA1001 configuration reset to facture setting

Pick up the phone attached to the Linksys.

Dial ****73738#

Press 1 to confirm

Hang up the phone

Step3. Obtain an IP address of the Linksys SPA1001

Enable DHCP to acquire an IP address automatically

1. Pick up the phone attached to the Linksys
2. Dial ****
3. Press 101# after you hear “Sipura configuration menu.”
4. Press 1# to enable DHCP
5. Hang up the phone and wait a while.

Obtain a valid IP address of the Linksys SPA1001.

Pick up the phone attached to the Linksys SPA1001

Dial ****

Press 110# after you hear “Sipura configuration menu”

The Linksys will read back an IP address of the Linksys. If this IP address is valid, you can immediately go to Step 4. Otherwise, you need to take the following Step C.

If the IP address of the Linksys SPA1001 is 0.0.0.0, please take the following actions.

Hang up the phone, unplug and replug the SPA1001 power cord to reboot.

Wait a few minutes, then check the IP address again by Step B

If the IP address is still invalid, please check the following aspects.

The DHCP server does not assign an IP address to the SPA1001. Please configure the DHCP server.

The network does not have a DHCP server. Please configure a static IP address manually by Step 4.

Step 4. Configure a static IP address manually

If the Linksys SPA1001 can not acquire a valid IP address automatically, it is necessary to configure a static IP address manually.

Obtain an IP address, a default gateway and a subnet mask from your ISP or your router

Pick up the phone connected to the Linksys.

Dial ****

Press 101# after you hear “Sipura configuration menu”

Press 0# to disable DHCP.

Press 1 to save the setting.

Press 111# to access the IP address Menu

Input the static IP address followed by # and use * to indicate a period (.). For example, the IP address is 192.168.1.135 would be 192*168*1*135#.

Press 1 to save the setting.

Press 131# to access the default gateway menu.

Enter the default gateway followed by # and use * to indicate a period (.).

Press 1 to save the setting.

Press 121# to access the subnet mask menu

Enter the subnet mask followed by # and use * to indicate a period (.).

Press 1 to save the setting.

Finally, please verify the IP address of Linksys is valid by Step 3.B.

Step 5. Set the configuration of the Linksys

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