[asterisk-users] SPA-942 TFTP Provisioning

[Steven Ringwald]

Jeremiah Millay wrote:
> I'm trying to provision some spa-942 phones via TFTP. The phones get 
> their address from a dhcp server which sends it option 66 (address of 
> the tftp server). After spending some time with the phones and even 
> breaking down to sniff traffic from the phones I see that they are not 
> requesting their config from tftp.
> I can kind of "fake" the phones into grabbing their configs by doing 
> something like:
>
> http://192.168.20.77/admin/resync?tftp://X.X.X.X/spa000e08db9208.cfg
>
> This will provision the phones correctly but it requires my 
> intervention. My configs are based on those taken from this site: 
> http://voipspeak.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=28 
>
> I'm confident that on the tftp server side everything is correct since 
> it works when I force the resync.
>
> In my network environment I have a number of Cisco IP phones that get 
> their configs from the same TFTP server and receive the same info from 
> the DHCP server and they are working correctly. So tftp is running and 
> dhcp is leasing out the correct info.
>
> Anyone run into this problem with the spa-942 or similar model? Any 
> help would be greatly appreciated.
>
One thing that messed me up with them is having stray '<' or '>' 
characters in the file. CallerID is an example. This *really* confused 
the XML parser on the phone.

Steve