Configuring voice vlans, Overview, Oui addresses – H3C Technologies H3C WX5500E Series Access Controllers User Manual

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Configuring voice VLANs

This chapter describes how to configure voice VLANs.

Overview

A voice VLAN is configured for voice traffic. After assigning the ports that connect to voice devices to a
voice VLAN, the system automatically configures QoS parameters for voice traffic, to improve the

transmission priority of voice traffic and ensure voice quality.
Common voice devices include IP phones and integrated access devices (IADs). Only IP phones are used

in the voice VLAN configuration examples in this document.

OUI addresses

A device determines whether a received packet is a voice packet by evaluating its source MAC address.

A packet whose source MAC address complies with the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI)
address of the voice device is regarded as voice traffic.
In general, as the first 24 bits of a MAC address (in binary format), an OUI address is a globally unique

identifier that IEEE assigns to a vendor. In this document, however, OUI addresses are addresses that the

system uses to determine whether a received packet is a voice packet. They are the results of the AND
operation of the arguments mac-address and oui-mask in the voice vlan mac-address command.
You can manually remove the default OUI address of a device and then add new ones. You can

configure the OUI addresses of a device in advance or use the default OUI addresses.

Table 14

lists the

default OUI address for each vendor's devices.

Table 14 The default OUI addresses of different vendors

Number OUI

address

Vendor

1 0001-E300-0000

Siemens

phone

2 0003-6B00-0000

Cisco

phone

3 0004-0D00-0000

Avaya

phone

4 00D0-1E00-0000

Pingtel

phone

5 0060-B900-0000

Philips/NEC

phone

6 00E0-7500-0000

Polycom

phone

7 00E0-BB00-0000

3Com

phone

Voice VLAN assignment modes

A port can be assigned to a voice VLAN in one of the following modes:

Automatic mode—The system matches the source MAC address carried in protocol packets sent
when an IP phone is powered on against the device's OUI addresses. If the system finds a match,

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