Now that I know that I'm not the only person (i.e. it's less likely that I just made a careless mistake), 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 did you pass in option 129? Just an IP address? A fully qualified domain name? A whole URL? A whole URL including protocol and credentials? I'd love to see that portion of your dhcpd.conf file. Out of curiousity, why did you choose option 129? I believe that's an undefined PiXiE boot option, but I'm curious because polycom seems to have made a de-facto convention of option 160. In other words that's the preconfigured non-66 DHCP option in the bootrom. I try to do as little one-off 'setup' as possible hopefully in such a way as to never need to revisit the phone even if the bootserver address or even the subnet address were to change. It seems that if I can recycle the factory-assigned FTP username and DHCP option number, it would be a good idea all else being equal. Maybe 160 would give the same trouble as option 66 :-) Thanks for your post. -Karl ----- 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 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning > Yes, this is still one of the unsolved mysteries I wanted to find out > about Polycom provisioning despite using it for a few years now. I used > vsftpd and initially used boot server opt 66 and type string but could > not get it to work. > > I asked our guru in DTW and he told me to use 129 and lo and behold, it > worked but I was not told why when I asked and I never had time to find > out why. > > Karl, if you could find the answer, please share it with us. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- >> boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Karl Fife >> Sent: Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:30 AM >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >> Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning >> >> Is anyone successfully using DHCP option 66 to specify an FTP [sic] >> provisioning of Polycom Sounpoint phones instead of TFTP? I know > option >> 66 >> is typically used TFTP booting, but the Polycom doc doesn't appear to >> specify that option 66 implies TFTP instead of FTP (since you > explicitly >> call out the protocol). TFTP option 66 booting was working fine. >> >> Does anyone know whether FTP provisioning of Polycom definitely > requires a >> custom DHCP option like 160? >> >> Usually in a situation like this I'd just creatively try different > things >> in >> a divide-and-conquer approach to find something that works. However > in >> THIS >> case the phone tries to contact the boot server for SO LONG that the >> aforementioned 'brute-force' option would take me a decade. >> >> Therefore I'm trolling for tips, which would be very mcuh appreciated! >> >> Thanks! >> -Karl >> >> >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> -- 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 > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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 > -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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