[asterisk-users] Polycom or Linksys phones bootp tftp config setup

[Justin Hamade]

I am not sure about the details of the DHCP protocol and what polycom want
but in a linux box using dhcp3 server this works for me:

option tftp-server-name         "tftp://10.102.1.1";

Justin

On 5/25/07, Watkins, Bradley <Bradley.Watkins at compuware.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> > JR Richardson
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:31 AM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom or Linksys phones bootp
> > tftp config setup
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Has anyone gotten the polycoms or the linksys phones to accept oprtion
> > 66 on the dhcp request for the address of the tftp config server?
> >
> > We have the dhcp server issuing the proper IP of the tftp
> > server, but the phones just sit there and never try to
> > contact the tftp server for their configs.  We can see the
> > proper option going from the dhcp to the phones with ethereal trace.
> >
>
> Can you attach the trace, or at least let me know what DHCP server you
> are using?  The Polycoms, at least, require that DHCP option 66 use the
> Microsoft-style DHCP behavior and actually encode it as a DHCP option
> (rather than a BootP header).  On certain DHCP servers (Nortel at least
> I can say for sure), the default behavior is "RFC-copmpliant" (or at
> least so they say).
>
> The other responder has it right, though, that at least insofar as the
> Polycoms are concerned FTP is the default rather than tftp.
>
> - Brad
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Justin
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