3300 DHCP network configuration

[blackberry1980]

Got a 3300 to install whereby the customer wants the RTC ip address to be 192.168.1.2 and using the 3300 DHCP to assign IP's in the 192.168.2.1 range to the IP sets. Is this possible ? and what would the reason for this type of setup ?

 

[cknipe]

Thats a good question for the why part.

The phones will be in constant communication with the 3300. Putting the controller in the 1.2 address just gives the phones an extra hop that they need to make across the vlan interface.


I would see if you can get the customer to tell you thier reasons that they want this. half the time customers just saw something cool in a magazine or read it as a best practices somewhere but in reality they may not know what they are talking about.

For instance, I have people all the time that insist on outfitting thier entire infrastucture with gig switches (because they think its faster all around), not realizing that unless you have 10g uplinks to your core in that type of scenario, you just end up creating bottlenecks. so maybe its just a not very well thought out plan.

 

[kwbMitel]

Can it do it? Yes

Why do it? Because the customer is always right?

Sneaky answer, use Subnet 255.255.252.0

This way 192.168.1.x and 192.168.2.x are on the same network ;-)

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