Joel: Make sure you understand and practice a little with the Etehrswitch module. The main thing to remember is that you have to set up the ports as trunk ports. Then you set the data vlan and voice vlans as normal. I'd at least run through it 3 or 4 times to make sure you can get the phones up and registered through the Etherswitch module so you can spend just a couple of minutes to configure that piece in the lab. You don't want to spend 15 minutes of valuable time trying to get this done on lab day:-)
Larry Hadrava CCIE #12203 CCNP CCNA Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc. URL: http://www.IPexpert.com On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Joel Jose <joeljose...@gmail.com> wrote: > i'm trying to make a decent lab..., i have an unused 3750 at work.. but it > has "sfp-LH-sfm" modules... buying Cat5 compatible modules are gonna be > expensive... i just got another idea... i also have a 3560 unused... so i a > thinking of truning between them using the existing SFP GBIC on them... and > then connecting my whole lab onto the 3560... i still havent made the plan > completely... but am in the process.... so any helps would be > appreciated.... > > now... i believe the POE configs on all the devices and the Etherswitch > modules are a piece of cake.. and i dont have to "practise"..it... may be > just a few proctorlabs would be enough for it...(if at all)... I wonder > what the etherswitch configs would be like... gues it follows the mqcli of > ios...? hope the lack of it in my lab wont prove costly.. > > and lastly... i plan on using only softphones..... i will be mainly > following the topology of proctorlabs.. so that when i purchase the bls it > will be easier...i hope.. for most part softphones are no dif from the > hardphones..(except that they dont have some realy stupid issues with the > headphone and speakerphone buttons.. like some 7960s in my lab..grrr ) > > > one more thing... i really am getting annoyed nowadays with the slow speed > of the cucm vmwares... even a 2/3 second waiting when the "loading" is > displayed is really adding up and wasting a good portion of my time... when > i am wanting to do a quick checkup of all the configs.. its a real pain... i > wish they had a "show run"... ghaaush... the way out.. is a good highend > server.. i will think about the configs for runing all the 5 vmwares + 9 > ipphones in a common server.... > > i plan to get a 3725 for cue+cme... and for the rest br1 and br2 i plan to > use 3640s... > > any help in the way of ideas would be greatly appreciated... > > joel. > > > > > > -- > "it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." > Abraham Lincoln >
