<div dir="ltr">Tell your expert he needs to keep current. You shouldn't configure switchports as trunks that are connecting to phones. <br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, David Zhars <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dzhars@gmail.com">dzhars@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I had an "expert" come in last week and fix some minor issues on our network.<br><br>He added this line to the ports on my 3560POEs. These ports support a phone and PC:<br><br><pre>switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q<br>
<br><br></pre><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Any idea why he would have added that line? What does it do? Any harm?<br><br>On another switch, he added that line and <br><br></font><pre>switchport mode dynamic desirable<br>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to the ports. Again, these ports (most of them are actually unused, it's a small network) will only have a phone, or at best,<br>a phone with a PC hanging off them.<br><br>
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