Question : Dell Powerconnect switch 3524/48P PC/IP phones daisy chaining Vlan setup

Hi All,

I am pretty new to switch configuration and I would welcome happily advice for a setup I have to do for company.

We purchased 2 Dell switches (3524P and 3548P) and we will use daisy chaining setup  with the PCs connected to the phones (Polycom SoundPoint IP 450) and then connected to the Dell switches.

I would like to separate the networks between the phones and machines even though they are connected to the same ports.

I read in some other threads that the key here would be to use Vlan tags.

For exemple, Vlan 10 is Voice and 20 Data.
The port would be configured this way:

interface ethernet e1
switchport mode general
switchport general pvid 20
no switchport general acceptable-frame-type tagged-only
switchport general allowed vlan add 20 untagged
switchport general allowed vlan add 10 tagged

The point here would be to have the phones tag their packets Vlan 10 (as there is a detting for this) and everything else, untagged, 20 (PCs and so on).

After that, I would apply Vlan 10 for the PBX port (which will be the DHCP for the phones) and Vlan 20 for the network server (PCs DHCP)

Am I on the right way? Is there a better way to do this (I saw on the Dell switches that their is a Voice Vlan menu setting....)?

Thank you very much for your feedback and suggestions.

Answer : Dell Powerconnect switch 3524/48P PC/IP phones daisy chaining Vlan setup

Give this document a look...
https://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/PC35xx/en/UG/HTML/ryanugck.htm#wp1392930

There are global commands for enabling the voice vlan, as well as a port specific command.

Global:
voice vlan enable
voice vlan id <vlan id>

Then on the ports:
voice vlan secure

There is also a show voice vlan command to view the ports it is enabled on.

Hope this helps!