Vlans and tagging

[jbower]

Hello to all,
Here is my question. I have a separate vlan for my voice (101) and the computers in our network are divided into three vlans (2)(3) and (6). These vlans including my voice all use static ip addressing. I would like to start using ip sets. So my question is when setting up my network switch can the phone and computer be on different vlans? Does the phone understand IP tagging? Is this a setting in the PBX that i need to enable to set this up? I tried setting up my network jack in my room which is on vlan 6 by tagging vlan 101 and untagging vlan 6 but this did not seem to work. So if someone has some insight. Or do the voice and computer need to both be on the same vlan?

Best Regards,
Jerry

[alex]

So my question is when setting up my network switch can the phone and computer be on different vlans?

Depends on your LAN architecture. But the rule is "Keep voice and data on different VLANs".

Does the phone understand IP tagging?

You can configure VLAN on phone itself or use IP QoS for VLAN configuration. But it is better to use DHCP and AVA feature.
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VLAN tagging applies to Ethernet frames - so any modern switch can tag any Ethernet frame so all VLAN business can be configured on the LAN switches without any OXE equipment configuration.
One thing you should take care of - if you CS and phones happens to on different VLANs - the never "see" each other unless VLAN routing is enabled in the router/switch.

Actually the chapter in the System Docs (IP-PCX Networks / 802.1p/Q and VLAN) is quite good.