Some background first:
We’re in the process of setting up a new phone system in three offices and utilizing VoIP between the offices and for voicemail. I’ve just been told (four days before implementation :mad: ) that I need to set the systems up on VLANs for quality of service reasons. Fine. I know how to physically configure VLANs on my switches, but I don’t know how it should be done.
The offices are connected via point to point lines and Cicso routers in the following manner:
New York[ul]
[li]Subnet - 192.168.0.0/24[/li][li]Phone system - 192.168.0.51[/li][li]Voicemail server - 192.168.0.50[/li][li]Router - 192.168.0.2[/ul][/li]Los Angeles[ul]
[li]Subnet - 192.168.1.0/24[/li][li]Phone system - 192.168.1.50[/li][li]Router - 192.168.1.2[/ul][/li]San Francisco is the same as LA, except in the 192.168.2.0 subnet.
All switches are Linksys (now Cisco) managed switches with web interfaces and port-based VLAN. LA and SF are small enough to only have one switch. New York has multiple switches, but the phone system and router are both on separate managed switches which connect two sides of the building together, so I gather I’ll need a VLAN trunk?
Anyway, I’ve read tons of tons of pages on VLANs, but none explain exactly how to configure a network, just how they work. Does each VLAN need to be a separate subnet? Any advice or detailed tutorial would be great.
Thanks.