[Asterisk-Users] Survey: Grandstream improvements.........

[WipeOut]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

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>Who in their right mind is putting these phones on the open Internet
>
An example.. sipphone.com

>, and if 
>they're not, then why is TFTP that big a problem?  TFTP's actually quite a 
>standard option in most networking equipment for pulling down new 
>configurations and firmware.  HTTP doesn't offer much in the way of helping 
>with that.
>
Its not as easy to upload to HTTP as it is to upload to TFTP.. :)

>What would be nice is perhaps a little DIP switch on the phone to enable LAN 
>reconfigure/flash for better security...  but for me anyway being able to 
>pull the TFTP server and config filenames (global and per-phone) from 
>standard DHCP extensions would be awesome.
>
What is the phone is getting its IP from a DHCP server that you don't 
have control over??.. eg a home worker