On 15:02, Fri 01 Aug 08, Jason Parker wrote: > I just wanted to post this so that it was out there and Googleable. Hopefully > it will save other people a bit of time. > > If you have a Cisco phone (I was testing with a 7970, though presumably it > would > affect 7960 and others as well) that is looping trying to fetch the CTL tlv > file > - it may be because you are using Debians 'tftpd' (should be > netkit-tftpd...*cough*hey, Debian developers*cough*) package, which is > apparently not RFC 783 (tftp) compliant with "file not found" responses. The > whopping 18 page RFC states that Error Code should be 0x00,0x01 for "file not > found" errors, but netkit-tftpd returns 0x00,0x00 which is "Not defined" - > causing the phone to ignore it and request the file again a few seconds later. > > Solution: Switch to any other tftpd. The moment I switched to tftpd-hpa or > atftpd, the phone stopped looping, picked up the SEP<mac>.cnf.xml file, and > immediately registered to Asterisk. > > Hopefully in the future Debian will rename, remove, or fix this package so it > is > no longer the default tftpd.
Thanks for the write-up. I tried with the latest 7960 firmware, and it did work with the default debian tftpd (had to install a new VM) For googleable stuff: The default tftpd on OpenBSD works fine ;) -- Michiel van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
