[asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning

[Mike Diehl]

On Wednesday 17 March 2010 5:29:36 pm Karl Fife wrote:
> Is anyone successfully using DHCP option 66 to specify an FTP [sic]
> provisioning of Polycom Sounpoint phones instead of TFTP?  I know option 66
> is typically used TFTP booting, but the Polycom doc doesn't appear to
> specify that option 66 implies TFTP instead of FTP (since you explicitly
> call out the protocol).  TFTP option 66 booting was working fine.
>
> Does anyone know whether FTP provisioning of Polycom definitely requires a
> custom DHCP option like 160?
>
> Usually in a situation like this I'd just creatively try different things
> in a divide-and-conquer approach to find something that works.  However in
> THIS case the phone tries to contact the boot server for SO LONG that the
> aforementioned 'brute-force' option would take me a decade.
>
> Therefore I'm trolling for tips, which would be very mcuh appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> -Karl

Yes, I'm using ftp for my Polycom provisioning.

Here is what I have in my dhcpd.conf file:

        option boot-server "ftp://polycom:passwd@10.0.1.1";
        option tftp-server-name "ftp://polycom:passwd@10.0.1.1";

To be honest, I'm not sure which one is needed, but together, they get the job 
done.

Let me know if you need more help.

I owe you one, btw, because I read your blog on getting these beasts 
provisioned in the first place.  sip:15058228592 at robodial12.diehlnet.com


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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.