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Help with EdgeSwitch VoIP setup

Hi,

Can anyone help me figure out the easiest way to configure an EdgeSwitch 24 250w for VoIP QoS?  There is surprising little clear/concise info out there on how to do so and the support I'm seeing for Ubiquiti products has me wishing I would have gone with a different brand.  /miniRant

I have an IPSec tunnel connecting two buildings, the 'remote' building has QoS configured on the Fortigate router, but the switch is basically in default mode.  I have 7 IP phones on site and we are having intermittent quality issues, so QoS on the switch is step one in my problem solving.  Browsing around the gui it looked like the OUI based method would be something I could fight through, but it's not quite that simple after all.

I'm not sure I understand what the OUI is...I though just the first half of the MAC.  The phones are Avaya model J169, and Google tells me the OUI is 00:04:0D, but according the client info from the switch, all of the phones MAC addy's start with C8:1F:EA, so wouldn't that be the OUI value?

Do I still need to create a VLAN with this method or does the 'auto-voip' setup take care of that for me?

Obviously a little over my head here with new stuff, but still disappointed that there isn't a 'how to' I could find...this has to be a very common request, no?
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The problem with "auto voip" type widgets in switches and routers is, you don't know what it does, so you can't easily tell if it's doing it. But - it's a one-click test. Turn it on. If it detects the Voip traffic it'll go first through that device. But that doesn't mean it will go first through any othre devices - though it will arrive at those devices first!

OUIs can change - when a company uses up all the MAC's in one range, it'll start on a new one. Don't go with OUI info, just look at teh actual phones! I bet they have the MAC address on a label on the main unit, even if it isn't visible on the status menu on the screen.

If you alreayd have QoS running in some areas I would think the easiest route was to "join" the other phones to the same group. FO which you would  need to now HOW the QoS is set up in that area.
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