[Asterisk-Users] Cisco DHCP and Polycom boot server

[Peter Johnson]

When you set up the DHCP pool in Cisco you need to use syntax like:

--> option 66 ascii "a.b.c.d"

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Noah Miller
> Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 9:08 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco DHCP and Polycom boot server
> 
> Hi - 
> 
> I've been trying to set up my Polycom phones to get the boot 
> server info
> (tftp-server-address) from DHCP on a Cisco router.  I've 
> previously just specified it manually on the phone, and that 
> works well enough, but I need to change now (because of the 
> number and geographic locations of the phones).  
> 
> I can actually get it to work just fine (using option 66 on 
> the Cisco router), if I change the DHCP menu on the Polycom 
> phone to show "BootSrv
> Type: String".  That's great, but that's not a default 
> setting, and I don't want to have to change any settings on 
> the phone.  I want the phones to be able to provision fully, 
> out-of-the-box, with nothing but the info from DHCP.  
> 
> If I leave the default setting (BootSrv Type: IP Address), 
> and tell the Cisco router to send the boot serverinfo as an 
> IP rather than as a string, nothing happens.  The phone just 
> says "Could not contact boot server, using existing 
> configuration", but according to the FTP logs and ethereal, 
> the phone doesn't actually try to contact the boot server at 
> all.  I've tried various version of the bootrom, but nothing 
> has worked so far.
> 
> Has anybody gotten this to work? (Cisco router DHCP and 
> Polycom boot server)
> 
> Thanks,
> Noah
> 
> 
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