[asterisk-users] Polycom, TFTP, and DHCP

[Kevin Smith]

Michael,

Maybe I am not understanding your question, are you saying that when you 
configure your phone with a static IP address, you cannot find the boot 
server and when in DHCP you can? If you are having problems with the 
phone having a static IP address, make sure it is getting the correct 
IP, subnet, gateway and DNS. If your DNS is incorrect for example, you 
won't be able to find the server you entered, since there will be 
nothing to point the phone where to go.

If you are talking about the actual boot server location, that needs to 
be static as far as I know. It isn't like DHCP addressing where it gets 
the DNS information from the host. It's a parameter that needs to be 
set. If your TFTP server is changing IPs I would strongly suggest giving 
it a static IP. It will make your life a lot easier.

Kevin

Michael Welter wrote:
> When I set the tftp address into the IP501 server parameters and boot, 
> the phone says it says it cannot find the boot loader and reuses the 
> previous configuration.  When I set the tftp address in DHCP and 
> reboot the phone, it finds the tftp server and loads correctly.
>
> My problem is that I don't always have control of the DHCP server.
>
> Is there a way to set the phone to find the tftp server on its own?
>
> Thanks
>