I'm currently managing an AVVID IP Tel system with about 500 users in three locations. I'm doing alright so far but I have been trying to find a good explanation about how a telephone comes up and knows where to go. Does the phone wake up and use CDP to discover the switches around it and the switches put it in an AUX VLAN or does it just power on and issue a BOOTP/DHCP Req to whatever is listening and then a Call Manager who already has the phone's MAC and knows what to send it? This is the best I've got so far but I'd like to know a little more about the specifics of the process if anyone has this. Its not critical but I'd just like to understand it a little more. I could be way off for all I know. No one else around me seems to know how the phone wakes up and gets going.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!