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I know this post is old
Is this still the best way ?
Firmware 4.0 will support LLDP-MED now
but only for some phones .
If this is the best way is the config info downloaded from the FTP server persistent data ?
Does the config.gz get written to NVRAM ?
If I temporarily setup my laptop as the FTP server will the phones still remember the VLAN info when I take my laptop out of the system ?
For some reason there appear to be no DHCP options that the phone understands controlling layer 2 stuff like VLAN TOS etc.
The network stuff seems so primitive compared to the 5000 or 3300.
I know that any additional phones added later would have to have the VLAN etc hand keyed but
for the initial 100 phones I definitley don't want to do it by hand
Thanks

I like to use IP phone manager whenever I can. Not a bad tool if you take time to learn it. The only drawback is it can not scan the ip sets riding on different network that your PC is in !

without doubt if you have a switch that support LLDP/MED or CDP (Cisco) that is a far better way to set the VLAN ID than putting that in the config file. The phones boot time will decease substantially when the phone learns it's VLAN ID via layer 2 protocols such as LLDP or CDP.