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Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone What Networking Protocols are Used? What Networking Protocols are Used? Cisco Unified IP Phones support several industry-standard and Cisco networking protocols required for voice communication. Table 1-1 provides an overview of the networking protocols that the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7961G/7961G-GE and 7941G/7941G-GE support. Table 1-1 Supported Networking Protocols on the Cisco Unified IP Phone Networking Protocol Bootstrap Protocol (BootP) Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Purpose Usage Notes BootP enables a network device such as the Cisco Unified IP Phone to discover certain startup information, such as its IP address. If you are using BootP to assign IP addresses to the Cisco Unified IP Phone, the BOOTP Server option shows "Yes" in the network configuration settings on the phone. CDP is a device-discovery protocol that runs on all Cisco-manufactured equipment. Using CDP, a device can advertise its existence to other devices and receive information about other devices in the network. The Cisco Unified IP Phone uses CDP to communicate information such as auxiliary VLAN ID, per port power management details, and Quality of Service (QoS) configuration information with the Cisco Catalyst switch. DHCP dynamically allocates and assigns an IP address to network devices. DHCP enables you to connect an IP phone into the network and have the phone become operational without you needing to manually assign an IP address or to configure additional network parameters. DHCP is enabled by default. If disabled, you must manually configure the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and a TFTP server on each phone locally. Cisco recommends that you use DHCP custom option 150. With this method, you configure the TFTP server IP address as the option value. For additional supported DCHP configurations, refer to Cisco Unified CallManager System Guide. Cisco Unified IP Phone 7961G/7961G-GE and 7941G/7941G-GE Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager OL-11528-01 1-5