[asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning

[Mike Diehl]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 11:24:18 am Karl Fife wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee, John (Sydney)" <John.Lee at compuware.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning
>
> >> 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 is E4Strategies?
> > Polycom support is hopeless in Oz.  They just shove you to some
> > distributer who only knows to replace your hardware.
>
> e4strategies is the where I bought all of my Polycom hardware.
>
> It would seem that e4 moves enough Polycom hardware so P pays attention to
> e4 when they open a support ticket, [which is why] I (and others) buy
> Polycom from e4, which is why P pays attention to e4 , which is why others
> buy from e4...  Loop: goto [which is why] :-)
>
> Preliminarily it appears that option 66 will only work with TFTP, but I'll
> follow up with whether or not that's  'official' or de-facto.
>
> -Karl

I know for a fact that you can provision a Polycom via ftp.  I've included 
much of my dhcpd.conf file below.  Pick out what you need.  Let me know if 
you have questions or further difficulty.

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ddns-update-style ad-hoc;

option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option netbios-name-servers 10.0.1.1;
option domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option boot-server code 66 = string;
option time-servers pool.ntp.org;

subnet 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        option broadcast-address 10.0.1.255;
        option routers 10.0.1.1;
        option tftp-server-name "10.0.1.1";
        range 10.0.1.50 10.0.1.60;
        allow unknown-clients;
        authoritative;
        one-lease-per-client off;
}

# Polycom phones
group {
        option boot-server "ftp://polycom:passwd@10.0.1.1";
        option tftp-server-name "ftp://polycom:passwd@10.0.1.1";

        option time-offset -25200;

        host 0004f2278ff8 {
                hardware ethernet 00:04:F2:27:8F:F8;
        }

        host 0004f22afafd{
                hardware ethernet 00:04:F2:2A:5A:FD;
        }
}


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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.