[Asterisk-Users] GrandStream Budgetone Phone & DHCP & General Observations

[Senad Jordanovic]

Nicolas Bougues wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:42:02AM -0500, Glenn Dalgliesh wrote:
>> Symptom: Phone after about 15mins will stop functioning
>> Problem: DHCP lease renewed but default route dropped
>> Fix: Assign a static ip and problem is resolved. Upgrade to new
>> firmware once it is released 
>> 
>> It turn's out that these phones have a few issue in 1.0.3.81
>> firmware. 
>> The phone may stop transmitting packets if configured with DHCP, if
>> DHCP is being provided by certain devices. Netopia routers have been
>> confirmed in this category. It turns out that there is some
>> differences btw the implementation of DHCP btw different vendor and
>> this is causing the phone to loose it default route and stop
>> transmitting packets approx 15mins after the phone receives it's
>> lease 
>> after reboot. GrandStream says this will be fixed in the next
>> release. 
>> 
> 
> Interesting. We have 6 GS phones, one is 1.0.3.81 and has this
> behaviour, the others, 1.0.4.17 are ok. The DHCP server is Linux
> dhcpd.  
> 
> In a remote office, they have an Allied Telesyn router providing
> DHCP, and all the phones, no matter the version, work well. 
> 
> On a slightly different topic : does somebody know of a NAT-friendly
> (as Grandstream means it) tftpd server ? It seems theirs replies from
> port 69, which is the only thing their phones will accept.  
> 
> [ If anybody wants it, I can send the 1.0.4.17 firmware by email ].

Hi,
I would be interested in having 1.0.4.17 firmware. :)
Thanks

SJ