[asterisk-users] Cisco 7940 phone and tftpd provisioning - for ever?

[James Miller]

I have my tftp daemon running all the time and it really doesnt affect 
the performance of the machine. Is there a reason why you want to shut 
it down?

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On 5/8/2011 5:19 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for posting here - but I figured there are many people with 
> Cisco IP phones here - and I use them with Asterisk :-)
>
> I have a couple of Cisco 7940 phones. I've loaded the SIP firmware OK, 
> loaded the SIP configuration files OK, they work with Asterisk just fine.
>
> My question is - will I have to keep on running the tftp server for 
> them for ever and ever? Isn't there any option for them to just use 
> the settings they have already loaded form the tftp server - so that I 
> can kill tftpd on my server machine? I tried doing that, and then the 
> phones stop booting, going in a loop looking for the tftpd server.
>
> It seems a bit pointless, having to run the tftpd daemon all the time 
> - although I've already loaded the firmware and configurations I want.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sebastian
>
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