[asterisk-users] OT - How to organize TFTP root directory ?

[Jared Smith]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:15 -0400, Dave Fullerton wrote:
> #2 might be possible, but there's a lot of "depends on" factors.
> 
> The ISC dhcpd often packaged in linux distributions has the ability to 
> specify different dhcp options to different "pools" of addresses. You 
> can then assign clients to pools based on a substring match of their mac 
> address. This then requires that the client (phone) will use the URL 
> specified in dhcp option 66. With all this put together you can assign 
> each brand of phone to its own pool/options where the options point it 
> to a URL containing the firmware for that brand of phone.
> 
> I do this with my polycom phones and it works well. Don't know if it 
> works with other brands of phones.

I've done this on a number of different phones, using both the ISC dhcpd
server as well as dnsmasq.  I've never encountered any problems with it.



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Jared Smith
Training Manager
Digium, Inc.