
VLAN Considerations
Issue 1 January 2008 83
VLAN Tagging
IEEE 802.1Q tagging (VLAN) is a useful method of managing VoIP traffic in your LAN. Avaya
recommends that you establish a voice VLAN, set L2QVLAN to that VLAN, and provide voice
traffic with priority over other traffic. You can set VLAN tagging manually, by DHCP, or in the
46xxsettings.txt file.
If VLAN tagging is enabled (L2Q= 0 or 1), the Avaya Agent Deskphone 16CC telephones set
the VLAN ID to L2QVLAN, and the VLAN priority for packets from the telephone to L2QAUD for
audio packets and L2QSIG for signalling packets. The default value (6) for these parameters is
the recommended value for voice traffic in IEEE 802.1D.
Regardless of the tagging setting, an Avaya Agent Deskphone 16CC telephone will always
transmit packets from the telephone at absolute priority over packets from secondary Ethernet.
The priority settings are useful only if the downstream equipment is administered to give the
voice VLAN priority.
VLAN Detection
The telephones support automatic detection of the condition where the L2QVLAN setting is
incorrect. When VLAN tagging is enabled (L2Q= 0 or 1) initially the telephone transmits DHCP
messages with IEEE 802.1Q tagging and the VLAN set to L2QVLAN. The telephones will
continue to do this for VLANTEST seconds.
● If the VLANTEST timer expires and L2Q=1, the telephone sets L2QVLAN=0 and transmits
DHCP messages with the default VLAN (0).
● If the VLANTEST timer expires and L2Q=0, the telephone sets L2QVLAN=0 and transmits
DHCP messages without tagging.
● If VLANTEST is 0, the timer will never expire.
Note:
Note: Regardless of the setting of L2Q, VLANTEST, or L2QVLAN, you must have
DHCP administered so that the telephone will get a response to a
DHCPDISCOVER when it makes that request on the default (0) VLAN.
After VLANTEST expires, if a telephone receives a non-zero L2QVLAN value,
the telephone will release the IP Address and send DHCPDISCOVER on that
VLAN. Any other release will require a manual reset before the telephone will
attempt to use a VLAN on which VLANTEST has expired. See the Reset
procedure in Chapter 3 of the Avaya Agent Deskphone 16CC Installation and
Maintenance Guide.
The telephone ignores any VLAN ID administered on the Communication
Manager call server.
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