VoIP and Access vs. Trunk for PC+Phone Clients...

This question is for those of you studying for your voice, or who already
have your voice certification(s)...

What is the standard practice with regards to switch interfaces when
connecting PC to phone, and then phone to switch (phone is basically a
switch)?

You have 2 separate VLANs so is the switchport trunked? Or is there some
method with voice VLAN to treat the interface more like an access interface
(thus avoiding a plethora of trunk ports and spanning-tree ports, etc.)....

I am working on a small multi-tenant voice job, non-Cisco phone, but Cisco
29609s at L2. Currently, I just trunk each interface, but this is not
ideal. I know NOTHING about voice VLAN. This network is ~25 clients, and
we don9t have the luxury of dual ports for each office space (this is a
mobile office site).

I have experience with Procurve, and it seems their implementation of dot1q
is actually better in this regard. =O

Thanks,
John

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Received on Mon Jun 07 2010 - 21:48:48 ART