[Asterisk-Users] Covad anyone ...

[Cory Andrews]

I have a detailed procedure on migrating from locked MGCP state to SIP, if 
you get really stuck email me and I will dig it up.

Cory Andrews
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Adamson" <radamson at routers.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Covad anyone ...


>
>> Has anyone done any integration work with Covad's hosted solution ?  I
>> am considering Covad's hosted solution and want to be able to use
>> Asterisk to develop some other apps.  Anyone else tried this ? how did
>> Covad react.  I know they use MGCP.
>
> Don't know anything about them.
>
>> Another thing, the Cisco reseller  rep tells me if I have a bunch of
>> 7960's setup for MGCP (for use with Covad) I will need to get these
>> phone hooked up to a Call Manager system to get them to load a SIP image
>> for the first time.  That doesn't fit with anything I have been reading
>> from Cisco and other places.  Any truth to that ?
>
> No. One of the last 7960's I bought came with MGCP and I had to jump
> through hoops to convert it. Its a little different then 7960's with
> other firmware installed.
>
> Since the menues on an mgcp 7960 are totally locked, I had to use a
> sniffer to detect what IP address the phone was trying to load from,
> re-IP a linux box to have that IP address, and then follow the 
> instructions
> on the wiki. It upgraded just fine.
>
> If you don't have access to anything that would sniff the packets from
> the phone (to identify the IP address its trying to load from), it will
> be very difficult to upgrade it.
>
>
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