[Asterisk-Users] help w/ basics

[Rod Bacon]

Unfortunately, the polycom phone was a bad choice from a beginner's perspective, as it loads it's firmware/config from a boot server every time it's powered up, and won't work without it.

Get a softphone (firefly, xten) running on a PC first (to ensure that your asterisk is OK).

Take your Polycom back to the shop, and get a cheap-ass Grandstream Budgetone.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Garrett Nelson 
  To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:58 AM
  Subject: [Asterisk-Users] help w/ basics


  Hello, I am new to Asterisk and new to this list. I =ot Asterisk setup and running using Asterisk at home, and purchased a PolyCom =oundPoint IP500 phone to test out.

   

  I cannot get the phone to talk to the Asterisk box. =n bootup of the phone, it tells me that it cannot contact boot server. Why =s that? It gets an IP fine, and I have also tried manually setting the IP =f the phone and the Asterisk system in the phone's =enu.

   

  I don't know what I am doing, and don't =now where to look for help. I have tried the wiki but didn't find anything =nd just got more overwhelmed. Can anyone point me to an easy guide to getting my =hone to talk to my Asterisk system, or help me set things =p?

   

  Network configuration:

  192.168.1.1     IPCop 1.4 firewall/router (DHCP server)

  192.168.1.2     Windows 2003 =erver

  192.168.1.20    Asterisk =ystem

  192.168.1.200  PolyCom SoundPoint IP500 =hone

   

   



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