[asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning

[Lee, John (Sydney)]

Yes, this is still one of the unsolved mysteries I wanted to find out
about Polycom provisioning despite using it for a few years now.  I used
vsftpd and initially used boot server opt 66 and type string but could
not get it to work.

I asked our guru in DTW and he told me to use 129 and lo and behold, it
worked but I was not told why when I asked and I never had time to find
out why.

Karl, if you could find the answer, please share it with us.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Karl Fife
> Sent: Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:30 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning
> 
> Is anyone successfully using DHCP option 66 to specify an FTP [sic]
> provisioning of Polycom Sounpoint phones instead of TFTP?  I know
option
> 66
> is typically used TFTP booting, but the Polycom doc doesn't appear to
> specify that option 66 implies TFTP instead of FTP (since you
explicitly
> call out the protocol).  TFTP option 66 booting was working fine.
> 
> Does anyone know whether FTP provisioning of Polycom definitely
requires a
> custom DHCP option like 160?
> 
> Usually in a situation like this I'd just creatively try different
things
> in
> a divide-and-conquer approach to find something that works.  However
in
> THIS
> case the phone tries to contact the boot server for SO LONG that the
> aforementioned 'brute-force' option would take me a decade.
> 
> Therefore I'm trolling for tips, which would be very mcuh appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!
> -Karl
> 
> 
> 
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