[Asterisk-Users] Why remotely reboot SIP phones?

[Douglas Garstang]

Polycom phones need a reboot after making configuration changes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why remotely reboot SIP phones?


We have to reboot our phones sometimes when we do something server side, 
mainly because the cisco firmware doesn't seem to handle everything very 
well.  Usually it's just to pull new configs though, as we test more 
features and roll them out.

Aaron

Steve Langstaff wrote:
> Over the last couple of weeks I have seen a thread about remotely rebooting SIP phones from Asterisk.
> 
> Is there something inherent in Asterisk that *requires* that SIP phones to be rebooted in a particular scenario, or is it just so that phones can pickup new firmware and/or configuration from their boot server?
> 
> TIA.
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