A few ideas to help the Iaxy little device work better:
at the very first startup (or with a switch), finding the LAN and a phone connected, it could call it and "say" it's IP (like 'one' 'nine' 'eight' 'dot' and so on).
Maybe with a little improvment it could also be called from it's telephone and acquire a fixed IP address by DTMF codes...
Alex
is some one from digium reading this thread. !!
Looks like they have a ready and a big market for this device. And all
they need to do is invest say 6 man months of development effort :)
come on digium do it !!
How about making the firmware open source so we can hack on it ...
t
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:37:02 -0500, Dana Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:13:12 -0500, Time Bandit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So how am I going to provision the device in the first place, to be > > able to dial this extension, if I don't even know the IP?
> Oups, sorry, didn't think about this one. > > Check winiaxyprov, the version 1.01 can scan your network to find > IAXy. Now the only thing we need is for Digium to write the MAC > address on the device before sending it in the open world. Because if > you have more than one on your network, you can't really know which > one you need to provision. > > hth
Yeah, I found that app earlier in the thread and thanked whoever it was (maybe you, can't remember) for linking to it. It's handy, as I had no way to determine the MAC or IP address prior to this, my IAXys kinda sat on the shelf collecting dust. (I did bring one home and plugged it into my Linksys router, but that's hardly an option in a large IT organization with many IAXys.)
My company has thousands of entries in the DHCP server, and it would take forever to go through each and every one of them. Not to mention that I, being in the telecom division, do not have access to the DHCP servers.
Luckily I actually have a Windows desktop here at work. I'd like a scanner like that for Linux though. Maybe it's possible with some other kind of application?
Anyhow, I still think it wouldn't kill them to add an IP address feature or something (an alternative would be to allow the iaxyprov tool to provision by MAC or IP, and yes, start labeling the devices with their MACs).
To me, it just doesn't seem like a product that was really ready for release yet. I think it could be really great after a bit of development though, and wouldn't discourage Digium from doing so, but for now, our company can't really use these for many applications. -- Dana _______________________________________________ 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
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