[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone Defective Units

[William Zhang]

Greg,

The Network Router MAC address issue is resolved by new firmware
1.0.3.81.

--- Greg Renouf <grenouf at well.com> wrote:
> Out of the 8 test Grandstreams we purchased in May- 3 of them are now
> totally dead. It looks like power supply problems...
> 
> 2 of the phones have broken buttons...
> 
> And every time I plug them into the network- half of them cause the
> network
> to crash.  It seems that in the network we are testing on (a Dutch
> university) does not agree with the Grandstream phones.  When plugged
> into
> the network, they seem to grab the MAC address from the local router
> and us
> it is their own.  This produces total chaos- local pc's get confused
> and the
> network stops working.  Not good.
> 
> I told GS about this problem a few months ago- they initially blamed
> the
> problem on the network.  So far, there has been no satisfactory
> solution.
> 
> It seems obvious to me that the GS is not ready for prime time...
> 
> -GSR
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Haehnichen" <s-asterisk at trix.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 5:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone Defective Units
> 
> 
> > -=> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:49:53 +0000, "WipeOut ."
> <wipeout at linuxmail.org> said:
> >
> > > The remote NTP problem is fixed in the current beta firmware that
> I
> > > have been testing for GS.. Hopefully it will be released soon..
> >
> > I'm going 'round and 'round with the GS support guys.  I've tried
> > three beta versions of the firmware and still don't have a fix for
> > what appears to be a serious problem.
> >
> > If I use a DNS server inside my LAN (within the subnet) while my
> > router is not at that same address, the phones crash at boot time. 
> In
> > other cases, they will ARP crazy things, like remote servers or
> > 0.0.0.0.  I could be wrong about the specifics, but there seems to
> be
> > certain sets of network addresses that they handle poorly.
> >
> > I've sent them a number of packet traces and some repeatable
> > scenarios, but each firmware update seems to fix one and break
> others.
> > At this point, I don't have a lot of confidence in their TCP/IP
> stack.
> >
> > That said, none of the three units (or their power supplies) have
> > failed on me. :)
> >
> > For best results, make sure the DHCP server and Router are the same
> > machine, and that the DNS server is outside your subnet.
> >
> > -Steve
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William Zhang