[asterisk-users] Snom phones recommended firmware

Sat Sep 4 05:26:56 CDT 2010

Hi!

> We're using firmware 7.3.30 on an installation of Snom 300 phones.
> Should we stick with it, or do the newer firmwares have better support
> for Asterisk? 

So what is it that you are missing that firmware 8 does offer? 7.3.30 is 
rather stable and therefore a good choice. 

Actually I would say this works the other way around and you could 
consider moving to Asterisk 1.8 soon to better match the Snom capabilites 
(some keywords: SRTP and TLS, P-Asserted header, AOC).

That said there are interesting features that firmware 8.4.11/17 added:
* support for 802.1X with eap-md5.
* support for LLDP-MED (Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint 
Discovery). 

http://wiki.snom.com/Firmware/V8/Release_Notes/Change_Log_V8

Philipp