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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to start configuring my Avaya 9608G phones for use on Asterisk / FreePBX / PBX-In-a-Flash. I’m using a variety of other phones on my system without major issues.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve read the discussion back in March, May and August of 2016, but unfortunately, my difficulty is much more basic. I think it has to do with DHCP, specifically, what options I’m offering the phone via DHCP.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">I haven’t even gotten the phone to look for any files on my asterisk server. I know this because the only traffic on my asterisk server going to or from the phone is ARP packets. Here’s
a tcpdump: <o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">$ tcpdump -v -vv host 10.194.138.245<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">10:07:57.256579 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: ICMP (1), length: 48) dhcpserver.mcts.org > 10.194.138.245: ICMP echo request, id 47332, seq 0, length 28<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">10:07:59.215981 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">10:08:00.216237 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">10:08:02.563742 arp who-has firewall.mcts.org (Broadcast) tell 10.194.138.245<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The question of boot protocol isn’t settled at all—many people say go ahead and use tftp (which would be nice, since all my other phones do) but there’s this document
<a href="https://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100176078">https://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100176078</a> that says in part: (page 56)<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HTTP Generic Setup<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">You can store the binary file, upgrade file, and settings file on an HTTP server. With proper
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">administration, the deskphone seeks out and uses that material. Some functionality might be
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">lost by a reset if the HTTP server is unavailable.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b>Note:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">If you used TFTP to provide the binary, upgrade, and settings files to older Avaya
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">IP telephones, <b><u>note that 9600 Series IP Telephones do not support TFTP</u>;</b> you
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">must use HTTP or HTTPS instead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">This shouldn’t matter, as I think I have provided for both- I added a new directory to my apache config files on my asterisk server, which opens fine in a web browser:
<a href="http://ad-apbx.mcts.org/voipcfg/">http://astserver.mcts.org/voipcfg/</a> And I do have those same files in the tftpboot directory, so if it was trying to use tftp, I’d see that.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">/tftpboot is r-x to everyone, so are all the subdirectories, and the avaya files are all 744 (owned by root.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">It contains an index page that just says “hello world” and all the config and upgrade files I downloaded from Avaya.
<b><u>But the phone never looks for anything on this server</u>. </b>It’s got 46xxsettings.txt 96x1Supgrade.txt and some tar files and bin files. But the tcpdump tells me it never checks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The docs I’ve been able to find talk about DHCP option 242 and 176, which I’ve never used before.
<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoListParagraph">All I know about are options like this: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> pool {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> range dynamic-bootp 10.194.138.241 10.194.138.254;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> allow members of "avaya-phones";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> deny members of "sophos";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> # 10.194.141.251 is asterisk server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> #option tftp161 "http://10.194.141.251";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> option tftp161 "10.194.141.251";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> option tftp162 "/voipcfg";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> next-server 10.194.141.251;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">DHCP is doing some things right for this phone:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:14.020926 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 tell dhcpserver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:15.001014 IP (tos 0x10, ttl 16, id 0, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP (17), length: 330) dhcpserver.bootps > 10.194.138.245.bootpc: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 302, xid:0x2c46f14e,
flags: [none]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Your IP: 10.194.138.245<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
<b>Server IP: astserver.mcts.org<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Client Ethernet Address: 50:cd:22:b4:7c:a6 (oui Unknown)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Vendor-rfc1048:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> DHCP:OFFER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> SID:dhcpserver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LT:144000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> SM:255.255.0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> DG:firewall.mcts.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> DN:"transit.mcts.org"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> NS:domainc1.transit.mcts.org,domainc2.transit.mcts.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> NTP:dhcpserver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:15.020927 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 tell dhcpserver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:16.020925 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 tell dhcpserver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:16.061936 IP (tos 0x10, ttl 16, id 0, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP (17), length: 330) dhcpserver.bootps > 10.194.138.245.bootpc: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length: 302, xid:0x2c46f14e,
flags: [none]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Your IP: 10.194.138.245<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">
<b>Server IP: astserver.mcts.org<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Client Ethernet Address: 50:cd:22:b4:7c:a6 (oui Unknown)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Vendor-rfc1048:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> DHCP:ACK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> SID:dhcpserver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LT:144000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> SM:255.255.0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> DG:firewall.mcts.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> DN:"transit.mcts.org"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> NS:domainc1.transit.mcts.org,domainc2.transit.mcts.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> NTP:dhcpserver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:16.232035 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:17.232318 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">14:22:19.575743 arp who-has firewall.mcts.org (Broadcast) tell 10.194.138.245<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone have any clues?<o:p></o:p></p>
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