Setting Up VoIP on 2610-24-pwr

[raul zulueta]

I have a 2610-24-pwr switch and I need to know how to setup the switch for voip. The pc will plug into the phone and the phone will plug into the switch. I am familiar with the Cisco environment but I am new to the ProCurve environment. Do we use auxiliary vlans or something else? How is it done?

[Jeff Carrell · Accepted solution]

"quick way"

config a port for "tagged" in a vlan for VoIP and verify the phone is configured likewise - this is also known as 802.1Q or in Cisco speak it is "trunk".

here is a quick example of config:

2610(config)# vlan 10 name voip
2610(config)# vlan 10 tag 2

phone will need to be configured for vlan2, once pc is plugged in, it will work in vlan1 (all ports are "untagged" in vlan1 by default).


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hth...Jeff

[Jeff Carrell]

Jeff Carrell said: "phone will need to be configured for vlan2, once pc is plugged in, it will work in vlan1 (all ports are "untagged" in vlan1 by default)."

opps, I should have said phone needs to be configured for 802.1Q (tag) for vlan 10.

Thanx Pete!

[John Gelten]

In ProCurve switches, an interface to connect to a VoIP phone is basically just a trunk port (in Cisco terminology ;- )

If your phones support LLDP-MED (enabled by default on the 2610) then you can add the word 'voice' in your switch-config to indicate to the phone that they have to use that tagged VLAN for VoIP.
I am not fluent with VoIP on Catalysts, but I seem to recall this is more or less the idea of the aux VLAN on Cisco (which wil prefer CDP over LLDP-MED)

So, your config might include something like this :

2610(config)# vlan 1 name data
2610(config)# vlan 1 untagged 1-24
2610(config)# vlan 10 name voip
2610(config)# vlan 10 tagged 1-24
2610(config)# vlan 10 voice

Be sure to run the latest firmware; we have seen serious jitter-issues with pre 11.48 releases. And a small bug that causes switches to suddenly forward VoIP-traffic in the default VLAN; although that seems to be limited to the 48-port models.