vlan

[stsguy]

any docs on setting up vlan on a netgear switch.connecting a 200icp w/5.0 software. the it guys at the site have never done vlans. trying to hep them out.

 

[LoopyLou]

Thats a pretty general question. Maybe someone could assist if you said what Netgear switch they are trying to use.

 

[JimHilton]

Something tells me a netgear is not vlan-able. You may need a higher end switch.

Basically a vlan allows you to set a switch to have ports that are isolated from the other ports on the switch.

Lets say you have a cisco 2950 and 24 port + 2 gigabit ports.

You have 12 computers and 12 phones. You would tell the switch that vlan0 is for the computers and vlan1 is for the phones.

On the first 12 ports you would have some type of DHCP server giving out IP's or a static IP network.

This is also true for the phones. Typically the controller is set up to hand out DHCP ips for the phones, but you can also have a static IP setup as well.

Having said all this, you could just get another switch and put the sets and controller on it.

Getting a little deeper, if you need to communicate with the controller via TCP you would need a "gateway" setup to allow your computer network talk to the phone network.

We use a unix system here, but i'm sure windows servers can do this as well.

Jim

 

[Mitelmatt]

The netgears do support VLANs, just depends on what model you've got