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Chapter 19 Configuring Dynamic Port VLAN Membership with VMPS
Dynamic Port VLAN Membership with Auxiliary VLANs
Dynamic Port VLAN Membership with Auxiliary VLANs
Note
This feature requires software release 6.2(1) or later releases.
This section describes how to configure a dynamic port to belong to two VLANs—a native VLAN and
an auxiliary VLAN. This section uses the following terminology:
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Auxiliary VLAN—Separate VLAN for IP phones
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Native VLAN—Traditional VLAN for data
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Auxiliary VLAN ID—VLAN ID of an auxiliary VLAN
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Native VLAN ID—VLAN ID of a native VLAN
Prior to software release 6.2(1), the dynamic ports could only belong to one VLAN. You could not enable
the dynamic port VLAN feature on the ports that carried a native VLAN and an auxiliary VLAN.
With software release 6.2(1) and later releases, the dynamic ports can belong to two VLANs. The switch
port that is configured for connecting an IP phone can have separate VLANs that are configured for
carrying the following:
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Voice traffic to and from the IP phone (auxiliary VLAN)
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Data traffic to and from the PC that is connected to the switch through the
access port
of the IP
phone (native VLAN)
These sections include configuration guidelines and examples:
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Dynamic Port VLAN Membership with Auxiliary VLANs Guidelines, page 19-14
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Configuring Dynamic Port VLAN Membership with Auxiliary VLANs, page 19-15
Note
For detailed information on the auxiliary VLANs and Cisco voice-over-IP networks, see
Chapter 55,
“Configuring a VoIP Network.”
Dynamic Port VLAN Membership with Auxiliary VLANs Guidelines
This section describes the guidelines and restrictions for configuring dynamic port VLAN membership
for the auxiliary VLANs:
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Configuration of the native VLAN ID is dynamic for the PC that is connected to the access port of the
IP phone. Configuration of the auxiliary VLAN ID is not dynamic; you need to configure it manually.
As the auxiliary VLAN ID is manually configured, the VMPS server is queried for packets coming from
the PC, not for the packets coming from the IP phone.
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All the packets except the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packets from the IP phone are tagged
with the auxiliary VLAN ID. All the packets that are tagged with the auxiliary VLAN ID are
considered to be the packets from the phone, and all the other packets are considered to be the
packets from the PC.