[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones

[Robert McNaught]

For this, I would recommend using a smart DHCP device, which supports
the passing of 'option 66' - for example, the edgemarc series of
routers.

With that, you could pass "ftp://user1:password1@bootserver1" via dhcp
in order to provision the phone, and different credentials if you are
concerned about mixing up bootroms, and application loads.

As far as I am aware ( I think I tried this once) it is not possible
to pass  ftp://username:password@host/directory1 via option 66.

I am not too sure how much of an issue the versions is is with
polycoms, in their reseller training, they give a list of upgrade
paths, but I am not sure if this affects new versions, which may just
be upgradable out of the box without any clashes....

Robert

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Lee, John (Sydney)
<John.Lee at compuware.com> wrote:
> I have a question about DHCP and boot server supporting more than 1
>  model of Polycom phones.
>
>  According to Polycom "standards", Polycom phone boots up to get a DHCP
>  address and at the same time getting a boot server string (with username
>  and password) to logon to boot server to download SIP, bootROM and etc.
>
>  That is okay if there is only one type of phone (that requires a
>  specific SIP and bootROM release).
>
>  What about if the environment has to support two or more models of
>  Polycom phones?
>
>  On the boot server side, I can define another home directory like
>  /home/polycom1 and /home/polycom2 to store different SIP and bootROM
>  releases.  However, the issue is how different polycom phone model can
>  get a different user account and password to log on to different home
>  directories.
>
>  I understand the issue here is DHCP and not the boot server but I am a
>  bit of a newbie here.
>
>  Can anyone help please?
>
>
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