> 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.
> 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? > Just "ftp://ftpuid:ftp...@fqdn"; > 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. > Unfortunately, our guru in DTW did not let me know why. Maybe when he sees this post, he might jump in to explain to us. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Karl Fife > Sent: Thursday, 18 March 2010 1:27 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom DHCP Option 66 FTP provisioning > > 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)" <[email protected]> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > <[email protected]> > 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: [email protected] [mailto:asterisk-users- > >> [email protected]] 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? 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