This is a follow up post to an earlier post on LLDP-MED. VoIP phones on the market today follow the same basic boot and operations process: 1 – Wait for an LLDP packet from the Ethernet switch 2- Send a DHCP discovery packet to find the DHCP Server 3- Send a DHCP request to the DHCP server to get an IP address 4- Send an LLDP-MED packet to the Ethernet switch 5- Wait for an LLDP-MED packet from the Ethernet [...]