On Thursday 18 March 2010 11:24:18 am Karl Fife wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee, John (Sydney)" <john....@compuware.com> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:50 PM > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning > > >> I'll see if E4Strategies can open a support ticket at Polycom. > >> They're really good about stuff like that. I'll let you know either > > > > way. > > > > What is E4Strategies? > > Polycom support is hopeless in Oz. They just shove you to some > > distributer who only knows to replace your hardware. > > e4strategies is the where I bought all of my Polycom hardware. > > It would seem that e4 moves enough Polycom hardware so P pays attention to > e4 when they open a support ticket, [which is why] I (and others) buy > Polycom from e4, which is why P pays attention to e4 , which is why others > buy from e4... Loop: goto [which is why] :-) > > Preliminarily it appears that option 66 will only work with TFTP, but I'll > follow up with whether or not that's 'official' or de-facto. > > -Karl
I know for a fact that you can provision a Polycom via ftp. I've included much of my dhcpd.conf file below. Pick out what you need. Let me know if you have questions or further difficulty. ====================================== ddns-update-style ad-hoc; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option netbios-name-servers 10.0.1.1; option domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option boot-server code 66 = string; option time-servers pool.ntp.org; subnet 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option broadcast-address 10.0.1.255; option routers 10.0.1.1; option tftp-server-name "10.0.1.1"; range 10.0.1.50 10.0.1.60; allow unknown-clients; authoritative; one-lease-per-client off; } # Polycom phones group { option boot-server "ftp://polycom:pas...@10.0.1.1"; option tftp-server-name "ftp://polycom:pas...@10.0.1.1"; option time-offset -25200; host 0004f2278ff8 { hardware ethernet 00:04:F2:27:8F:F8; } host 0004f22afafd{ hardware ethernet 00:04:F2:2A:5A:FD; } } -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users