[Asterisk-Users] Why remotely reboot SIP phones?

[Steve Totaro]

Also, the old grandstreams would lose their registrations periodically.
I have not played with a grandtream in quite a while so I would assume
they fixed this in firmware but that was another reason for regular
reboots.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:57 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why remotely reboot SIP phones?
> 
> We have to reboot our phones sometimes when we do something 
> server side, mainly because the cisco firmware doesn't seem 
> to handle everything very well.  Usually it's just to pull 
> new configs though, as we test more features and roll them out.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> Steve Langstaff wrote:
> > Over the last couple of weeks I have seen a thread about 
> remotely rebooting SIP phones from Asterisk.
> > 
> > Is there something inherent in Asterisk that *requires* 
> that SIP phones to be rebooted in a particular scenario, or 
> is it just so that phones can pickup new firmware and/or 
> configuration from their boot server?
> > 
> > TIA.
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