[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone Defective Units

[Greg Renouf]

Great, I guess that makes up for the defective hardware...

-GSR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Zhang" <w_w_zhang at yahoo.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone Defective Units


> Greg,
> 
> The Network Router MAC address issue is resolved by new firmware
> 1.0.3.81.
> 
> --- Greg Renouf <grenouf at well.com> wrote:
> > Out of the 8 test Grandstreams we purchased in May- 3 of them are now
> > totally dead. It looks like power supply problems...
> > 
> > 2 of the phones have broken buttons...
> > 
> > And every time I plug them into the network- half of them cause the
> > network
> > to crash.  It seems that in the network we are testing on (a Dutch
> > university) does not agree with the Grandstream phones.  When plugged
> > into
> > the network, they seem to grab the MAC address from the local router
> > and us
> > it is their own.  This produces total chaos- local pc's get confused
> > and the
> > network stops working.  Not good.
> > 
> > I told GS about this problem a few months ago- they initially blamed
> > the
> > problem on the network.  So far, there has been no satisfactory
> > solution.
> > 
> > It seems obvious to me that the GS is not ready for prime time...
> > 
> > -GSR
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Steve Haehnichen" <s-asterisk at trix.com>
> > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 5:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone Defective Units
> > 
> > 
> > > -=> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:49:53 +0000, "WipeOut ."
> > <wipeout at linuxmail.org> said:
> > >
> > > > The remote NTP problem is fixed in the current beta firmware that
> > I
> > > > have been testing for GS.. Hopefully it will be released soon..
> > >
> > > I'm going 'round and 'round with the GS support guys.  I've tried
> > > three beta versions of the firmware and still don't have a fix for
> > > what appears to be a serious problem.
> > >
> > > If I use a DNS server inside my LAN (within the subnet) while my
> > > router is not at that same address, the phones crash at boot time. 
> > In
> > > other cases, they will ARP crazy things, like remote servers or
> > > 0.0.0.0.  I could be wrong about the specifics, but there seems to
> > be
> > > certain sets of network addresses that they handle poorly.
> > >
> > > I've sent them a number of packet traces and some repeatable
> > > scenarios, but each firmware update seems to fix one and break
> > others.
> > > At this point, I don't have a lot of confidence in their TCP/IP
> > stack.
> > >
> > > That said, none of the three units (or their power supplies) have
> > > failed on me. :)
> > >
> > > For best results, make sure the DHCP server and Router are the same
> > > machine, and that the DNS server is outside your subnet.
> > >
> > > -Steve
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