Mo, thank you for your reply.

The two locations are seperate divisions, but they share the same phone system. Voice VLAN traffic is sent across the Fiber line. Data is sent across the WAN. On each of the 3750's at both facilities, there is a VLAN 230 called VOICE.

So my question, when an 7940 IP phone is connected to the network, how does it know to get its IP Address from the DHCP server on the CCM? Cause since its connected, it looks for a DHCP server, how would it know if it needed to get it from the Data VLAN on the Voice VLAN?

Hi,

You'll need ip helper command on the VLAN SVI interface of the IP Phones on the remote location to be able for the DHCP request to reach the DHCP server on the other end (the CCM).

HTH,

Mohammed Mahmoud.

Wouldnt this command forward all DHCP requests to the CCM box? We only want Phones to get their IP Addresses from the CCM without affecting the PCs.

Hi,

No, since the remote PCs and the remote IP Phones belongs to different VLANs, thus there are 2 SVI interfaces, one for each, and since you are going to apply this command only under the IP Phones SVI interface it will only let the IP phones reach the CCM and not the PCs.

HTH,

Mohammed Mahmoud.

Ok, so you recommend we use:

ip helper-address

Once I enter this command, can I remove the default-gateway on the switch (the default gateway on the switch, is the Voice vlan Ip address of the switch that is directy connected to the CCM.)

Hi,

Yes, you are right regrading the ip helper command, but as for the default gateway, if you are talking about the "default-gateway" command then it is of no need as long as "ip routing" is enabled on the switch, but you'll need static routing for the Voice IPs over the WAN links on both sides as they are 2 different IP subnets, in order for they to inter-communicate.

HTH,

Mohammed Mahmoud.