[Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

Alex Pepper ape.mlist at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 02:24:21 MST 2005


A few ideas to help the Iaxy little device work better:

at the very first startup (or with a switch), finding the LAN and a 
phone connected, it could call it and "say" it's IP (like 'one' 'nine' 
'eight' 'dot' and so on).
Maybe with a little improvment it could also be called from it's 
telephone and acquire a fixed IP address by DTMF codes...

Alex


> is some one from digium reading this thread. !!

> Looks like they have a ready and a big market for this device. And all
> they need to do is invest say 6 man months of development effort  :) 

> come on digium do it !! 

> How about making the firmware open source so we can hack on it ...

> t

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:37:02 -0500, Dana Olson <rickaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:13:12 -0500, Time Bandit <timebandit001 at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> > > So how am I going to provision the device in the first place, to be
>>> > > able to dial this extension, if I don't even know the IP?
>>    
>>
>> > Oups, sorry, didn't think about this one.
>> >
>> > Check winiaxyprov, the version 1.01 can scan your network to find
>> > IAXy. Now the only thing we need is for Digium to write the MAC
>> > address on the device before sending it in the open world. Because if
>> > you have more than one on your network, you can't really know which
>> > one you need to provision.
>> >
>> > hth
>  
>
> 
> Yeah, I found that app earlier in the thread and thanked whoever it
> was (maybe you, can't remember) for linking to it. It's handy, as I
> had no way to determine the MAC or IP address prior to this, my IAXys
> kinda sat on the shelf collecting dust. (I did bring one home and
> plugged it into my Linksys router, but that's hardly an option in a
> large IT organization with many IAXys.)
> 
> My company has thousands of entries in the DHCP server, and it would
> take forever to go through each and every one of them. Not to mention
> that I, being in the telecom division, do not have access to the DHCP
> servers.
> 
> Luckily I actually have a Windows desktop here at work. I'd like a
> scanner like that for Linux though. Maybe it's possible with some
> other kind of application?
> 
> Anyhow, I still think it wouldn't kill them to add an IP address
> feature or something (an alternative would be to allow the iaxyprov
> tool to provision by MAC or IP, and yes, start labeling the devices
> with their MACs).
> 
> To me, it just doesn't seem like a product that was really ready for
> release yet. I think it could be really great after a bit of
> development though, and wouldn't discourage Digium from doing so, but
> for now, our company can't really use these for many applications.
> --
> Dana
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