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

[Sebastian Arcus]

Oh yeah - love your idea :-)

So just to clarify - I take it the Cisco phones (at least the 7940) are 
supposed to be run with a tftp server available at all time - not only 
during the initial configuration? Just making sure I didn't miss 
something obvious in the documentation. Can somebody confirm please.

It's just that the Grandstream phones I use can load firmware and 
configs over http or tftp - but they are happy to work without it once 
they are configured.

Sebastian


On 05/09/2011 02:59 AM, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> 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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