Hi Peter - > When you set up the DHCP pool in Cisco you need to use syntax like: > > --> option 66 ascii "a.b.c.d"
Thanks! I guess maybe I didn't explain very well. I did get this far, and this seems to work well, if I manually set the phone to read an ascii string. I'm being really picky here, though. I want Joe Schmoe user to be able to plug in the phone and have it get provisioned without having to make any changes to the phone (like selecting to use a DCHP string rather than an IP). With all the Cisco phones that I have, the default setting has been to read the tftp-boot-server parameter as an IP rather than as a string, and I can't get this to work with Cisco DHCP. Maybe somebody else has, though? Thanks, Noah >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Noah Miller >> Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 9:08 AM >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco DHCP and Polycom boot server >> >> Hi - >> >> I've been trying to set up my Polycom phones to get the boot >> server info >> (tftp-server-address) from DHCP on a Cisco router. I've >> previously just specified it manually on the phone, and that >> works well enough, but I need to change now (because of the >> number and geographic locations of the phones). >> >> I can actually get it to work just fine (using option 66 on >> the Cisco router), if I change the DHCP menu on the Polycom >> phone to show "BootSrv >> Type: String". That's great, but that's not a default >> setting, and I don't want to have to change any settings on >> the phone. I want the phones to be able to provision fully, >> out-of-the-box, with nothing but the info from DHCP. >> >> If I leave the default setting (BootSrv Type: IP Address), >> and tell the Cisco router to send the boot serverinfo as an >> IP rather than as a string, nothing happens. The phone just >> says "Could not contact boot server, using existing >> configuration", but according to the FTP logs and ethereal, >> the phone doesn't actually try to contact the boot server at >> all. I've tried various version of the bootrom, but nothing >> has worked so far. >> >> Has anybody gotten this to work? (Cisco router DHCP and >> Polycom boot server) >> >> Thanks, >> Noah _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
