[Asterisk-Users] help w/ basics

[Jerry]

On Mar 29, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Garrett Nelson wrote:

> Hello, I am new to Asterisk and new to this list. I got Asterisk setup 
> and running using Asterisk at home, and purchased a PolyCom SoundPoint 
> IP500 phone to test out.
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> I cannot get the phone to talk to the Asterisk box. On bootup of the 
> phone, it tells me that it cannot contact boot server. Why is that? It 
> gets an IP fine, and I have also tried manually setting the IP of the 
> phone and the Asterisk system in the phone’s menu.
>

Per your list below you do not have a boot server. You also do not need 
one. Read the admin guide for the phone to learn how to configure it.
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> I don’t know what I am doing, and don’t know where to look for help. I 
> have tried the wiki but didn’t find anything and just got more 
> overwhelmed. Can anyone point me to an easy guide to getting my phone 
> to talk to my Asterisk system, or help me set things up?

What have you actually setup in your sip.conf?

I do not use @home but hear it is very easy to setup.
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> Network configuration:
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> 192.168.1.1     IPCop 1.4 firewall/router (DHCP server)
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> 192.168.1.2     Windows 2003 server
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> 192.168.1.20    Asterisk system
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> 192.168.1.200  PolyCom SoundPoint IP500 phone
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