[Asterisk-Users] polycom IP 500/600

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Richard wrote:

> The ease of configuration is the biggest concern here. I'd like to try
> everything to avoid pressing the keypad of the phone to change the setting.
> There is no way I want to go to a site to make a configuration change.
> 
> We will most likely deploy a small appliance as a local dhcp and ftp server
> inside a customer's network. Therefore security is less an issue. We only
> have ssh access to the local server. Then if we make any change, we just
> change the setting on the server and send a command to reboot the phone.
> Again there is no way I visit each site and punch keys on each phone.
> 

I totally understand.

For a device to be ftp/dhcp server, may I reccomend a Linksys WRT54G? 
If you don't already have some, get one a get OpenWRT.  You could SSH 
into it on the WAN (with a dyndns client if you need one), and run a 
DNS,DHCP and FTP server on it internally.  Or ipsec, or even Asterisk! 
I highly suggest you try them out.  Remember that you can always turn 
off the wireless radio.

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Kristian Kielhofner