[asterisk-users] Aastra phones

[John Millican]

Mike wrote:
> Hi,
> 
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> 
> I`ve been toying with an Aastra phone (9143i) wondering if it could be a
> good alternative to to the more expensive Polycom phones.
> 
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> 
> One thing which I can't figure out, although it certainly looks simple,
> is to update the firmware though FTP (not TFTP).  I have set the ftp
> provisioning server in the Aastra phone, and put the firmware file
> 9143i.st in the root folder where the login/password pair ends up.
> Everything is entered correctly, or so it seems (works fine with my
> Polycoms).
> 
>  
> 
> When I reboot the phone from the Web UI, it doesn't seem to take in the
> new firmware.  But it does seem to download the (empty) aastra.cfg file
> (proving that the provisoning server settings are correct).
> 
>  
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

I believe that the older firmware for the Aastra phone will only update
from TFTP.  I am not sure what rev level this changed at though.
JohnM