[asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning

[Karl Fife]

Now that I know that I'm not the only person (i.e. it's less likely that I 
just made a careless mistake), I'll see if E4Strategies can open a support 
ticket at Polycom.  They're really good about stuff like that.  I'll let you 
know either way.

What did you pass in option 129?  Just an IP address? A fully qualified 
domain name?  A whole URL?  A whole URL including protocol and credentials?

I'd love to see that portion of your dhcpd.conf file.

Out of curiousity, why did you choose option 129?  I believe that's an 
undefined PiXiE boot option, but I'm curious because polycom seems to have 
made a de-facto convention of option 160.  In other words that's the 
preconfigured non-66 DHCP option in the bootrom.  I try to do as little 
one-off 'setup' as possible hopefully in such a way as to never need to 
revisit the phone even if the bootserver address or even the subnet address 
were to change.  It seems that if I can recycle the factory-assigned FTP 
username and DHCP option number, it would be a good idea all else being 
equal.  Maybe 160 would give the same trouble as option 66 :-)
Thanks for your post.
-Karl



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee, John (Sydney)" <John.Lee at compuware.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning


> 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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