Hi. I’m about the replace my Sonicwall with a Unifi Dream Machine Pro Max.
My question is…what is the best way to configure the Dream Machine while in the Sonicwall network? Should I plug the DM directly into my Modem? Should I setup a temporary VLAN to use as the WAN for the DM while setting it up?
If possible UDM having it’s own public IP would work because you can’t feed the WAN of the UDM with a network that will also have to exist on the LAN of the UDM.
Thanks. Just to confirm, different than the Sonicwall public IP?
Yes, since you can’t have the same IP with both connected to the WAN
Thanks! One more question. We have several ports where the port is connected to a 3CX desk phone internet port and then the user’s workstation ethernet is connected to the 3cx desk phone’s pc port. We are switching to Unifi switches from Aruba switches at this same time.
Is there a specific way I need to set these ports up so that the phone gets an IP from the phone VLAN and the workstation gets an IP for the LAN?
We do have separate VLANs for the phone network.
Are your computers hooked up to your phones or do you have separate ports for phone and workstation?
I only have one ethernet port for these workstations. The computers are hooked up to the phones.
There should be a DHCP option you can set so the phones know what VLAN they need to be on. Then you would set the native VLAN to be the workstation and also allow the VoIP VLAN.
Alternatively there is a way to create a profile and set the VoIP VLAN. But I have had issues in the past and went down the path of setting the DHCP option for the phones. This way it always knows what VALN ID it needs to connect to. I think there was some weird timeout for the LLDP-MED and it would sometimes not work properly.
For the phones we use. which are poly I set the following DHCP option.
Is it normal for the Unifi console to show the phone as having an IP from the Native VLAN, which is LAN, even though the Phone has an IP from the VOIP VLAN?
In my testing that is what I am seeing. I tried it both ways you recommended. For both ways the Unifi console shows a Native VLAN IP address for the phone.
It’s possible because the phone is getting an IP address on that port along with the workstation connected to the phone. I think it’s a race condition to which gets an IP first. Not necessarily what is native.
