[asterisk-users] Polycom or Linksys phones bootp tftp config setup

[Watkins, Bradley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> JR Richardson
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:31 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom or Linksys phones bootp 
> tftp config setup
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Has anyone gotten the polycoms or the linksys phones to accept oprtion
> 66 on the dhcp request for the address of the tftp config server?
> 
> We have the dhcp server issuing the proper IP of the tftp 
> server, but the phones just sit there and never try to 
> contact the tftp server for their configs.  We can see the 
> proper option going from the dhcp to the phones with ethereal trace.
> 

Can you attach the trace, or at least let me know what DHCP server you
are using?  The Polycoms, at least, require that DHCP option 66 use the
Microsoft-style DHCP behavior and actually encode it as a DHCP option
(rather than a BootP header).  On certain DHCP servers (Nortel at least
I can say for sure), the default behavior is "RFC-copmpliant" (or at
least so they say).

The other responder has it right, though, that at least insofar as the
Polycoms are concerned FTP is the default rather than tftp.

- Brad

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