[Asterisk-Users] OT: Polycom BootRom 3.1.3 and vsftpd 2.0.3

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Douglas Garstang,
Your inability to keep your mouth shut (err hands closed when writing
emails) is sometimes astonishing.


On 3/7/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> Docs? Polycom has docs? Where would one find this fabled land of... err I mean Polycom does stating what ftp servers are supported?
>
> Doug.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken D'Ambrosio [mailto:ken at jots.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:12 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Polycom BootRom 3.1.3 and vsftpd 2.0.3
>
>
> HTTP's nice, but FTP does the job.  Check the docs for supported FTP
> servers -- many of the stock Linux FTP servers will give the exact problem
> you discussed, below.  I should know -- took me almost a week before
> trying proftpd, and WHAMMO, worked like a champ.
>
> -Ken
>
> On Tue, March 7, 2006 12:37 pm, William M Conlon wrote:
> > I spent a weekend battling similar issues with 501s, using FC4/
> > proftpd.  I finally switched from FTP to HTTP.
> >
> >
> > On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >>
> >> Please forgive the exclamation points but I have been battling
> >> this one off and on for about four days now.  Sorry for the cross post.
> >>
> >> It all started with a box of IP 501s.  I contacted my reseller and
> >> obtained the latest BootRom and SIP firmware.  Unzipped, configured,
> >> copied over to my FTP server (running AstLinux, of course).  The phone
> >> booted, so far so good.  Updated bootrom, nice.  Rebooted again. Updated
> >> sip firmware.  Also nice.
> >>
> >> Upon the next reboot, the wheels started falling off.  The phones
> >> would not get changes I made to any of the .cfg files.  Several phones
> >> would take 20 minutes or more to boot, only to display a "0x4000 config
> >> file error".  What happened?
> >>
> >> I have been using various Polycom's with AstLinux (and vsftpd
> >> 2.0.3 that I include with it) for quite some time, with no problems
> >> whatsoever.  Until now.
> >>
> >> I had been running bootrom 3.0.1 and various versions of the SIP
> >> image at several other sites with no problem.  At this point I was still
> >> unable to accept the fact that I might not be able to run this latest
> >> bootrom.  After many trial and tribulations, I finally rsync'ed (with
> >> -avr) the FTP directory from the AstLinux machine to
> >> my laptop running CentOS 4.  I configured the vsftpd daemon (version
> >> 2.0.1) IDENTICALLY (with the exception of PAM and TCP
> >> wrappers) and crossed my fingers...
> >>
> >> After re-configuring the IP 501 to use my laptop, imagine my
> >> surprise when the most problematic of them booted right away without
> >> problems. Again and again, everything was fine.
> >>
> >> So now I just had to break out ethereal and see what was going on.
> >> While I have not completely finished my analysis, it appears that
> >> Polycom firmware 3.1.3 bombs out when transferring files with
> >> vsftpd 2.0.3.  The symptom appears to be repeated TCP SYNs from the
> >> Polycom to the ftp daemon on port 20.  The Polycom will keep
> >> retrying and increment its source port number by one every few minutes.
> >> Like I said, I need to dig into this more, but I figured
> >> I'd report what I know and see if anyone out there can fill in the
> >> holes.
> >>
> >> Here's what I did.  It appears that BootRom 3.1.3 works with
> >> vsftpd 2.0.1, so I placed bootrom 3.0.1 (which I know works with vsftpd
> >> 2.0.3) on my CentOS server and downgraded the phone to
> >> 3.0.1.  I then placed 3.0.1 and SIP app 1.6.5 (which I was using
> >> the whole time, btw) on my AstLinux server running vsftpd 2.0.3.
> >>
> >> All was good.  So now I am successfully running with the following:
> >>
> >>
> >> Polycom IP 501
> >> Bootrom 3.0.1
> >> SIP 1.6.5
> >> AstLinux 0.3.7
> >> vsftpd 2.0.3
> >>
> >> I will also try to fix (or workaround) this by trying the following:
> >>
> >>
> >> upgrading AstLinux to include vsftpd 2.0.4 trying an intermediate
> >> BootRom release between 3.0.1 and 3.1.3
> >> (find out exactly where/when it broke)
> >> trying an even newer Polycom BootRom when it becomes available upgrading
> >> the kernel in AstLinux (I doubt that's it) fiddling with iptables rules
> >> in AstLinux (iptables was loaded, but obviously 3.0.1 doesn't have a
> >> problem with it)
> >>
> >> This also might be related to the problems described here:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?
> >> p=14847&sid=6e70577c37bd345cfc164a01e64e113a
> >>
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?  Comments?  Suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >> P.S. - I will be updating the Polycom config files at http://
> >> www.krisk.org/asterisk/pcom/ to reflect some new changes in this firmware
> >> release.  I just need to get my phones working first :)!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kristian Kielhofner
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> >
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