Need help with Avaya IP phones

[Simon Hobson]

Phusion wrote:

>I need some help assigning IP's for Avaya IP phones. I have tried many
>different config options, but none have worked. From the logs it looks
>like the IP phones try to get IP addresses from range for desktop PC's
>which use a different VLAN.
>
>data network
>- desktop PC's
>- range 192.168.1.x
>- VLAN 1
>
>voice network
>- Avaya 4610, 4620 IP phones
>- range 192.168.101.x
>- VLAN 101
>
>The server running DHCP is FreeBSD 8.0 and the version of DHCP is
>3.1.2. Here is one of the basic config files I tried.
>
># /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf
>
>ddns-update-style none;
>option option-176 code 176 = string;
>
>shared-network data {
>     subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>         option routers 192.168.1.2;
>         option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
>         option option-176 "L2Q=1,L2QVLAN=1";
>         range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.199;
>     }
>}
>
>shared-network voice {
>     subnet 192.168.101.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>         option routers 192.168.101.1;
>         option broadcast-address 192.168.101.255;
>         option option-176
>"MCIPADD=192.168.101.10,MCPORT=1719,TFTPSRVR=192.168.1.34,L2Q=1,L2QVLAN=101,VLANTEST=300";
>         range 192.168.101.100 192.168.101.139;
>     }
>}

OK, we need to take a step back and look at your network. How is the 
server connected to the VLANs ? How are the phones connected ? Are 
you sure the phones re actually in the right VLAN ?

If the server is offering a 192.168.1.x address then it believes the 
phone is in the 192.168.1.0 network.

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