[Asterisk-Users] polycom IP 500/600

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Kristian Kielhofner


I meant to say WRT54GS. Sorry.

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Kristian Kielhofner