[Asterisk-Users] RE: Cisco DHCP and Polycom boot server

[Peter Johnson]

Hmmm, I tested this quite a bit as per below...
Sorry if this seems lame, but you are using FTP right? Because FTP is the
default, not TFTP (even though you use the DHCP TFTP option to set the FTP
server address).

Peter

Case 1 (by FTP from current bootrom and application versions):
==============================================================

DHCP server model:	cisco WS-C3560-24PS
DHCP server firmware:	12.1(19)EA1c
DHCP server IP address:	192.168.0.30
Phone model:		Polycom IP500
Phone firmware:		Bootrom 3.0.1.0023, Application SIP 1.5.2.0054

Phone reset to factory defaults prior to test.
(CDP is disabled by default on phone)

DHCP server settings:

	ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.49
	ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.0.56 192.168.0.255
	!
	ip dhcp pool peter
	   network 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0
	   default-router 192.168.0.27
	   dns-server 192.168.0.4 192.168.0.5
	   domain-name testme.com
	   option 42 ip 192.168.0.4
	   option 66 ascii "ftp://user:pass@192.168.0.2"
	   lease 0 4
	!

The phone booted, obtained an ip address, created the boot file on the
ftp server, loaded its config files, set the time correctly, and
registered with the sip server.

Case 2 (by FTP from old bootrom and old application versions):
==============================================================

DHCP server model:	cisco WS-C3560-24PS
DHCP server firmware:	12.1(19)EA1c
DHCP server IP address:	192.168.0.30
Phone model:		Polycom IP500
Phone firmware:		Bootrom 2.5.0.0006, Application SIP 1.4.0

Phone reset to factory defaults prior to test.
(CDP is disabled by default on phone)

DHCP server settings:

	ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.49
	ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.0.56 192.168.0.255
	!
	ip dhcp pool peter
	   network 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0
	   default-router 192.168.0.27
	   dns-server 192.168.0.4 192.168.0.5
	   domain-name testme.com
	   option 42 ip 192.168.0.4
	   option 66 ascii "192.168.0.2"
	   lease 0 4
	!

The phone booted, obtained an ip address, created the boot file on the
ftp server, loaded the new application, rebooted, loaded its config
files, set the time correctly, and registered with the sip server.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Miller [mailto:noah at rosecompanies.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 1:53 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Cc: lists at itchymind.com
> Subject: Re: Cisco DHCP and Polycom boot server
> 
> Hi Peter -
> 
> > When you set up the DHCP pool in Cisco you need to use syntax like:
> > 
> > --> option 66 ascii "a.b.c.d"
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I guess maybe I didn't explain very well.  I did get this 
> far, and this seems to work well, if I manually set the phone 
> to read an ascii string.
> 
> I'm being really picky here, though.  I want Joe Schmoe user 
> to be able to plug in the phone and have it get provisioned 
> without having to make any changes to the phone (like 
> selecting to use a DCHP string rather than an IP).  
> 
> With all the Cisco phones that I have, the default setting 
> has been to read the tftp-boot-server parameter as an IP 
> rather than as a string, and I can't get this to work with 
> Cisco DHCP.  Maybe somebody else has, though?
> 
> Thanks,
> Noah
> 
> 
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Noah 
> >> Miller
> >> Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 9:08 AM
> >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco DHCP and Polycom boot server
> >> 
> >> Hi -
> >> 
> >> I've been trying to set up my Polycom phones to get the 
> boot server 
> >> info
> >> (tftp-server-address) from DHCP on a Cisco router.  I've 
> previously 
> >> just specified it manually on the phone, and that works 
> well enough, 
> >> but I need to change now (because of the number and geographic 
> >> locations of the phones).
> >> 
> >> I can actually get it to work just fine (using option 66 
> on the Cisco 
> >> router), if I change the DHCP menu on the Polycom phone to show 
> >> "BootSrv
> >> Type: String".  That's great, but that's not a default 
> setting, and I 
> >> don't want to have to change any settings on the phone.  I 
> want the 
> >> phones to be able to provision fully, out-of-the-box, with nothing 
> >> but the info from DHCP.
> >> 
> >> If I leave the default setting (BootSrv Type: IP Address), 
> and tell 
> >> the Cisco router to send the boot serverinfo as an IP 
> rather than as 
> >> a string, nothing happens.  The phone just says "Could not contact 
> >> boot server, using existing configuration", but according 
> to the FTP 
> >> logs and ethereal, the phone doesn't actually try to 
> contact the boot 
> >> server at all.  I've tried various version of the bootrom, but 
> >> nothing has worked so far.
> >> 
> >> Has anybody gotten this to work? (Cisco router DHCP and 
> Polycom boot 
> >> server)
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Noah
> 
>