9608 IP Phone enabling the PC Passthrough

[CaptObvious26]

We're migrating away from Avaya CM in the next couple of months and I would like to enable to PC passthrough ports on our 9608 phones so that we can run the Polycom replacements side by side for a test. Where can I change it globally in CM that all the 9608's on our switch will have the PC passthrough enabled?

 

[gwebster]

The second Ethernet port is enabled by default. You can turn it off or on via the 46xxsettings.txt file.

 

[kyle555]

Hey Captain Obvious, how did you plan on powering those Polycoms? They ain't POE ports on the backs of the 9600s

 

[CaptObvious26]

They must have been turned off by the company that installed them then, how do I go about editing that 46xxsettings.txt file?

We're powering them by the included AC adapter initially, then after the migration they will be POE replacing the Avaya phones.

 

[kyle555]

There's nothing you can edit in the settings file relative to POE.

Just saying if you're daisychaining a phone to a phone to a switchport, you'll need 2 power sources - POE from the switch and an AC POE brick, or 2 port POE adapter for each phone or something like that.

 

[gwebster]

## PHY2STAT specifies the speed and duplex settings for the secondary (PC) Ethernet interface.
## Valid values are 0 through 6; the default value is 1.
## Value Operation
## 0 disabled
## 1 auto-negotiate
## 2 10Mbps half-duplex
## 3 10Mbps full-duplex
## 4 100Mbps half-duplex
## 5 100Mbps full-duplex
## 6 1Gbps full-duplex if supported by hardware, otherwise auto-negotiate
## This parameter is supported by:
## H1xx SIP R1.0 and later (values 0-5 only)
## 96x1 H.323 R6.0 and later
## 96x1 SIP R6.2 and later (values 0-5 only)
## 96x1 SIP R6.0.x
## 96x0 H.323 R1.0 and later
## 96x0 SIP R1.0 and later
## 46xx H.323 R1.8 and later (values 0-5 only)
## 46xx SIP R2.2 and later (values 0-5 only)
## 16xx H.323 R1.0 and later
## 16CC SIP R1.0 and later
## 1603 SIP R1.0 and later
## SET PHY2STAT 1

If you are using VLANs for the Polycom phones, then you will also want to make sure that the configuration parameters for VLANs for the PC port are also properly set.

 

[CaptObvious26]

Kyle555 I'm doing NOTHING with POE here. I just want the data to pass through it. No VLANs since the phone network is completely separate of the data network.

Gwebster, thanks for the info. Now I just need to FTP into the switch, move the file to a spot where I can edit it, and move it back. Then I'm guessing restarting all the phones should force them to read the new file from the call server.