With critical voice VLAN on Catalyst 9300 (IOS XE 17.15.x), a port goes into critical authentication mode when ISE does not respond, and a phone sending traffic tagged with the voice VLAN is placed in the configured voice VLAN.

Checked 2026-10-02

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cisco Catalyst 9300 Series Switches
Subsystem
802.1X
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
IOS XE 17.15.x
Checked
2026-10-02

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). Troubleshooting IP phones that do not get a voice VLAN or DHCP options: source note ip-phone-dhcp-vlan-troubleshooting-critical-voice-vlan. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/ip-phone-dhcp-vlan-troubleshooting-critical-voice-vlan

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-ip-phone-dhcp-vlan-troubleshooting-critical-voice-vlan,
  title  = {Troubleshooting IP phones that do not get a voice VLAN or DHCP options: source note ip-phone-dhcp-vlan-troubleshooting-critical-voice-vlan},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/ip-phone-dhcp-vlan-troubleshooting-critical-voice-vlan},
  note   = {Source note ip-phone-dhcp-vlan-troubleshooting-critical-voice-vlan, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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