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

[C.J. Adams-Collier]

Run more of your systems as diskless.  Make your tftp setup
indispensable :)

On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 22:37 +0100, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I'm not concerned about performance. But I've 
> learned that every extra daemon software on a server comes with its 
> security caveats. I would feel much better about not having another one 
> to worry about and keep an eye on.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> On 05/08/2011 10:30 PM, James Miller wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > “I see blindness more as the ability and sight
> > more as the disability, I only see that which
> > is within a person.”
> > Patrick Henry Hughes - 2009
> >
> >
> > 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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