Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones
All Polycom phones use the same firmware and bootroms - one reason why the sip.ld is so damn large for them. Thanks Rob. Alleluia! Rob, I will take your word for it - it solves all my worries in deploying different models to the same environment like IP5XX and IP6XX. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones
Can't you just use the same bootrom for all your polycom phones? PaulH On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:38 +1100, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: I have a question about DHCP and boot server supporting more than 1 model of Polycom phones. According to Polycom standards, Polycom phone boots up to get a DHCP address and at the same time getting a boot server string (with username and password) to logon to boot server to download SIP, bootROM and etc. That is okay if there is only one type of phone (that requires a specific SIP and bootROM release). What about if the environment has to support two or more models of Polycom phones? On the boot server side, I can define another home directory like /home/polycom1 and /home/polycom2 to store different SIP and bootROM releases. However, the issue is how different polycom phone model can get a different user account and password to log on to different home directories. I understand the issue here is DHCP and not the boot server but I am a bit of a newbie here. Can anyone help please? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- 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 -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Paul Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't you just use the same bootrom for all your polycom phones? PaulH On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:38 +1100, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: I have a question about DHCP and boot server supporting more than 1 model of Polycom phones. According to Polycom standards, Polycom phone boots up to get a DHCP address and at the same time getting a boot server string (with username and password) to logon to boot server to download SIP, bootROM and etc. That is okay if there is only one type of phone (that requires a specific SIP and bootROM release). What about if the environment has to support two or more models of Polycom phones? On the boot server side, I can define another home directory like /home/polycom1 and /home/polycom2 to store different SIP and bootROM releases. However, the issue is how different polycom phone model can get a different user account and password to log on to different home directories. I understand the issue here is DHCP and not the boot server but I am a bit of a newbie here. Can anyone help please? As someone earlier pointed out, different models of polycom phones can be pointed to the same set of configuration files. With the standard ISC dhcpd server, the phones can be told where to look by using a directive like: option tftp-server-name ftp://polycom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/; This would require a user account on the ftp server like: polycom:x:501:501:Polycom Phone Provisioning:/etc/asterisk/polycom/ftp/:/bin/bash and the configuration files would be placed in the /etc/asterisk/polycom/ftp/ directory. So if you wanted to have separate configurations for certain phones (for upgrade testing, etc., it is easily possible. SJ ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones
Paul Hales wrote: Can't you just use the same bootrom for all your polycom phones? To elaborate in case it isn't obvious from above: Even if you needed different config files or even SIP applications by phone, you don't have to go to separate DHCP entries by phone. The MACADDESS.cfg file points to everything *except* the bootrom, so as long as you can share the same bootrom for all your phones, you can set one particular phone to use the new latest-and-greatest SIP application and related config files by just changing it's particular MAC.cfg file. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones
I have a question about DHCP and boot server supporting more than 1 model of Polycom phones. According to Polycom standards, Polycom phone boots up to get a DHCP address and at the same time getting a boot server string (with username and password) to logon to boot server to download SIP, bootROM and etc. That is okay if there is only one type of phone (that requires a specific SIP and bootROM release). What about if the environment has to support two or more models of Polycom phones? On the boot server side, I can define another home directory like /home/polycom1 and /home/polycom2 to store different SIP and bootROM releases. However, the issue is how different polycom phone model can get a different user account and password to log on to different home directories. I understand the issue here is DHCP and not the boot server but I am a bit of a newbie here. Can anyone help please? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones
For this, I would recommend using a smart DHCP device, which supports the passing of 'option 66' - for example, the edgemarc series of routers. With that, you could pass ftp://user1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] via dhcp in order to provision the phone, and different credentials if you are concerned about mixing up bootroms, and application loads. As far as I am aware ( I think I tried this once) it is not possible to pass ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/directory1 via option 66. I am not too sure how much of an issue the versions is is with polycoms, in their reseller training, they give a list of upgrade paths, but I am not sure if this affects new versions, which may just be upgradable out of the box without any clashes Robert On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Lee, John (Sydney) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question about DHCP and boot server supporting more than 1 model of Polycom phones. According to Polycom standards, Polycom phone boots up to get a DHCP address and at the same time getting a boot server string (with username and password) to logon to boot server to download SIP, bootROM and etc. That is okay if there is only one type of phone (that requires a specific SIP and bootROM release). What about if the environment has to support two or more models of Polycom phones? On the boot server side, I can define another home directory like /home/polycom1 and /home/polycom2 to store different SIP and bootROM releases. However, the issue is how different polycom phone model can get a different user account and password to log on to different home directories. I understand the issue here is DHCP and not the boot server but I am a bit of a newbie here. Can anyone help please? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- 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 -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones
All Polycom phones use the same firmware and bootroms - one reason why the sip.ld is so damn large for them. Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: I have a question about DHCP and boot server supporting more than 1 model of Polycom phones. According to Polycom standards, Polycom phone boots up to get a DHCP address and at the same time getting a boot server string (with username and password) to logon to boot server to download SIP, bootROM and etc. That is okay if there is only one type of phone (that requires a specific SIP and bootROM release). What about if the environment has to support two or more models of Polycom phones? On the boot server side, I can define another home directory like /home/polycom1 and /home/polycom2 to store different SIP and bootROM releases. However, the issue is how different polycom phone model can get a different user account and password to log on to different home directories. I understand the issue here is DHCP and not the boot server but I am a bit of a newbie here. Can anyone help please? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- 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 -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
