Thanks Guys, I had not realised until the last couple of days that DHCP did more than just providing the IP address to the client. I have been happily just doing that for a few years now without anything other than my Router providing the DHCP function. It's only now that I have taken the plunge into IP telephony that I realise that it can do more and for Cisco phones, should provide the address of the TFTP server. My work-around at the moment is to used fixed IP addresses in the phone for it's own IP address and the TFTP server - not as neat as I would like, but it works. I will look at a better long term solution with a different DHCP server (as already mentioned earlier in this thread).
Looking on the bright side, I have got the phone provisioned - though I'm still working out what all the options are, but it is working. As Brian has spotted - my reference to a 7540 was an error - I got in right in the body of the original post, but not when I edited the subject line - oooops - sorry. The phone is a 7940 ! regards Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl J. Vesterling" <k...@ken-ton.com> To: <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] TFTP Server & Cisco 7540 > Yeah, roger that... > Here is an excerpt from the page I did on the Cisco 7960G HowTo: > > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Freeswitch_Cisco_7960G_Howto > > It's for Linux, but you'll get some good pointers on the TFTP option > you're looking for. > I haven't provisioned any 7540's... Good luck! > > Best Regards, > Karl J. Vesterling > k...@ken-ton.com > 202-461-3231 x0 > > On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Brian West wrote: > >> Some Cisco phones need DHCP option 150. >> >> /b >> >> On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Dave Stevenson wrote: >> >>> Metik, >>> >>> thanks a lot for the tip, I will certainly look at it, particularly >>> if it >>> does DHCP too. >>> >>> At the moment, I use my ADSL Router to provide DHCP to the network >>> but I've >>> just discovered that you can't configure options in its DHCP server >>> to point >>> to the TFTP server for the phone. At the moment, I have to have the >>> phone >>> set to a static IP address to be able to configure the TFTP server >>> address >>> which is not as flexible as using DHCP. I had thought about changing >>> over to >>> use Windows Server DHCP services but it sounds like ttpd32 would do >>> the >>> trick. >>> >>> I just need to decide whether I want all of my machines to rely on >>> getting >>> their IP address from another PC - it feels like having DHCP in the >>> router >>> is more robust. >>> >>> Regards >>> Dave >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list >> FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org >> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users >> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users >> http://www.freeswitch.org >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
