[cisco-voip] IOS VG Link redundancy

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Trying to separate the two (voice and network) will probably give you more trouble than it's worth. I can understand wanting to separate the two groups, but you should be able to work together without much issue. Most of the time, it's really just working out a configuration and then letting it be. 

We have two seperate voice and network groups, but we work very closely (we're in the same building actually) on many of our projects. The VGW and VG224s is a perfect example. We're working together on another project on moving our voice servers behind a set of redundant server farm switches with FWSM and ACE modules and making sure we conform to all of Cisco's requirements. This would be impossible without a strong network team. 

Consider the the gateways as just another network device with voice as a service. 



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Bennett" <bennetb at gmail.com> 
To: "Jason Aarons (US)" <jason.aarons at us.didata.com> 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:37:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] IOS VG Link redundancy 









Wh at makes you want to change it? 

Well it's mostly a political thing. We are trying to remove the network team from the gateways and remove the voice team from the network. 

Also 12.4(15)T8 which is required for our CVP install has proven itself so completely unstable that the idea of having it in my routing domain scares me and probably the less services running on it the better. 

I am doing max-metric, and a separate OSPF area for the VGs so that they will never try to route traffic not for them, but it seems to me there should be a better way to have an IOS device that doesn't have to participate with a RP with the rest of the network. 


-Brandon 

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