Does anybody have any reference to documentation or best practices about why it's a good idea to separate data and phone networks with #VLANs?
Having a bit of a debate with a #telecom provider. I've set them up a VLAN in which they can do whatever they want for the phones which has its own dedicated gateway, but they want to remove the VLAN and set all the phones up with static IPs on the same VLAN as the PCs, with their gateway on a separate IP with DHCP disabled.
Sure, it will work, but what an absolute management and maintenance nightmare right?.... right!?!
Besides, if they still want static IPs, why don't they just do it on the VLAN I graciously set up for them?!
If there's a best practices document I can point them towards I can have a bit of relief!
#networking #bestPractices #8021q