Does anybody have any success stories on getting this to work with the Aastra 9133i phones? I guess Aastra didn't introduce this functionality until the 2.3 firmware versions. Which it doesn't look like it supports my 9133i phones.
We really need this to work so that we dont' have to manually program the VLAN's on 300+ phones in our office. Can I flash the 2.3 firmware to a 9133i? Has anybody got that to work? What are my options?
No, the 9133 only supports firmware up to version 1.4.3, that's going back an eternity in today's SIP world.
You need to setup a tftp server on the default VLAN, that will feed the phone an aastra.cfg file that sets the VLAN to something else.
When the phone next boots, it will be looking for DHCP/aastra.cfg on the specified VLAN.
we did find that the fix was to modify the aastra.cfg file and add the vlan configuration in there like so:
VLAN id: 20 (or your VLAN ID for phones)
tagging enabled : 1 (this tells it that you want to do Q tagging on the port behind the phone)
VLAN id port 1: 4095 (this tells it just to use whatever vlan it gets from the Q tag on the switch)
I added this portion below the DHCP and sip registration information
The downside of this is:
-It doesn't do CDP to show up as a CDP device on my Cisco Switches
- It doesn't allow me to dynamically allocate different vlan's for different phone networks on the same server/physical network
- It requires manual programming in the aastra.cfg
The other problem I ran into was running an older version of the firmware taht didn't support those commands. If you make these changes to the aastra.cfg you need to make sure that you are on the latest astra firmware for that phone which is currently: 1.4.3.1001
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