[asterisk-users] Cisco 7940 phone and tftpd provisioning - for ever?

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 05/09/2011 04:50 PM, Warren Selby wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Sebastian Arcus <shop at open-t.co.uk
> <mailto:shop at open-t.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     That's strange. Mine get stuck on the booting phase, looking for the
>     tftp server, if they can't find it there. Even if I change the dhcpd
>     option not to pass out any tftp server. Any ideas what did you
>     configure differently?
>
>     Sebastian
>
>
> All I can really think is that the 7940 and the 7941 use different
> firmwares and configuration files, maybe there was some kind of change
> between the two?

That's always a possibility.

Does the phone never time out while looking for a server?

Not as far as I can tell. It just goes in a loop. Even if it would 
eventually time out, 2-3 hours to boot a phone would be a bit much :-)

Sebastian