We are a K-12 school district and nearly every classroom has a networked laser printer. We will be putting in IP phones over the next six months. The IP phones all have two RJ45 jacks, and in and an out. We want to come out of the wall jack with a patch cable to the phone and then another patch cable from the phone to the printer. All of our printers have DHCP reservations set so they pick up an IP address via DHCP. The phones will be in a completely different vlan than the printers. They need to be in separate vlans so we can set QOS rules for the phones. I know we have to make trunk ports on our EX4200 switches to carry the two vlans (printer and IP phone). Two questions:
- Will this work?
- How does the IP phone gets its IP address?