[asterisk-users] Polycom SP4000 ftp problem

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 23 October 2006 15:51, Edwin Lam wrote:
> i recently bought an SP4000 conference phone but having problem
> provisioning it using ftp, every time it just hangs at
> "Updating initial configuration..." screen. when i switch it
> to tftp, it'll work fine. i though it was bootrom/firmware issue
> so i upgrade it to bootrom 3.2.2/sip 2.0.1 but it makes no
> difference. any thoughts?
> 
> p.s. i'm using debian sarge proftpd 1.2.10 and the setting works
> fine w/ SP501 with bootrom 3.1.2/sip 1.6.3
> 

Sooo...stick with tftp? :) Seriously, that's what it's for. tftp isn't really 
an FTP server; it uses a different protocol, and uses only a single port (UDP 
69). You can't use real FTP servers for this.

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