Panasonic Questions

[sqone2]

Hey Tek-Tips, I'm new to Panasonic phone systems. I usually work with IP Office, but we've inherited a location with a Panasonic TDE100. I was speaking with our phone vendor about making some network changes, and I had a few questions to make sure he is correct.

1. On my switchports, he told me to Tag both the Data and Voice VLANs. I am used to tagging only the Voice VLAN and leaving the Data VLAN untagged. This way the switchport can be used for a phone/PC combo or just a PC. If I tag both ports, you will not be able to used that port for just a PC.

2. With AVAYA, I can pass the phone DHCP options to tell it which VLAN is used for voice, then pass DHCP options to tell the phone where to find the PBX and voicemail server. My vendor told me that I would have to enter the PBX info into each phone manually, and DHCP options would not work.


Any help on either point would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[obtsystems]

you don't have to tag anything if you want it all on the same network, the dhcp will work, but if you may have to setup pabx ip address
what software level are you running

 

[sqone2]

I will not be using one subnet. I will have one VLAN for voice, and another for Data.

 

[tobeage]

Does your switch support VLAN tagging? the phones will tag packets sent from them or a PC on their built in port appropriately.

 

[obtsystems]

the phone port can be tagged for traffic on vlan to system, the computer on the pc port will use the pvid vlan of the switch as most pc's can not handle tagged data packets