----- "Ken D'Ambrosio" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, all. Got an SNOM 820 in the other day to kick the tires. As > with > many phones, provisioning it was a bit of a PITA. The biggest > problem, as > far as I could tell, was that their firmware just doesn't seem that > stable, and is sometimes hard to get to. > - I managed to corrupt the firmware twice; fortunately, instead of > bricking the phone, there's a fairly easy-to-use "rescue mode." > - Google was *not* your friend to find the URL to current firmware > (for non-beta, it's http://wiki.snom.com/Firmware ; for beta, it's > http://wiki.snom.com/Firmware/V8/Beta ) > - There's a (non-standard) VPN release of firmware that has to be > installed to get OpenVPN going. > - Also got WLAN going; note that, apparently (and to my surprise), it > appears that WPA keys are case-sensitive, and the phones default to > uppercase. Beware. Also, you have to buy a ~$40 USB stick to get it > going, but that sounds more awkward than it is: the phone has a > nicely-recessed cavity on the bottom where it plugs in. > > Next, if you aren't familiar with OpenVPN, I *do not* recommend having > the > phone as your first client. Set up a Linux or Windows client, first, > to > get the hang of it. Then move on to the phone. For example, one of > my > firmware corruptions occurred when I named a file "client.conf" > (.conf > being the usual Linux-based OpenVPN configuration file extension), > instead > of "client.cnf". Had to reflash. > > Bottom line: the phone actually works quite nicely. Provisioning for > a > one-off is a pain, but SNOM seems to have the hooks in place to make > larger rollouts quite easy. OpenVPN works like a champ, but should > be > handled with care for those who don't have experience with it. The > speakerphone quality is quite nice, and there are lots of nifty > features > the SNOM offers that I haven't seen on other phones -- for example, > netcat > is used for debugging OpenVPN, and a SIP log is truly nifty. > > One-line summary: recommended, but be prepared to spend some time > getting > the first one going if some of the more esoteric features (VPN, WLAN) > are > used. > > -Ken > > Would be nice if the VPN support could be back ported to the 360s. -- Thanks, Phil
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