In my experience, this can be pretty cumbersome. I could be wrong but I
think the reason I stopped doing it was that the phone would restart
when you applied ANY changes, and you'd have to wait like 90 seconds or
more to be able to re-access the phone via http.
Moj
Avi Miller wrote:
Stephen
Hi, everybody:
I have looked at the Polycom entries on www.voip-info.org, and they're
outdated and convoluted and full of errors.
All I want to do is get my Polycom 501 to register with a working
Asterisk server. I want to do the configuration locally on the phone
through the console. (The
Hi Stephen,
I use the 601's but I don't think they are THAT much different that
this information won't be helpful or get you in the right direction.
What is your network setup like? Are you using NAT or does the phone
have a public IP address? Also are you seeing any errors on the CLI of
Hi, Kevin:
Kevin Smith wrote:
Hi Stephen,
I use the 601's but I don't think they are THAT much different that
this information won't be helpful or get you in the right direction.
What is your network setup like? Are you using NAT or does the phone
have a public IP address? Also are you
Stephen Bosch wrote:
That's the trouble. So many places to configure!
snip
Here's one source of confusion --
The parameters in the Server: ... category are
Address: [this is supposed to be the DNS or IP address of the SIP server]
Port: 5060
DNS Lookup: UDP only [I set this to UDP only
Hi Stephen,
Sorry if the e-mail is a bit choppy but I figured it would be best to
cut/paste answers in. Now again, I am using the 601's so things may be a
little different, but for the most part should be similar.
No NAT. This is just one Polycom 501 that is dialing out through an
Asterisk
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Configuring Polycom 501 IP phones via the console
Hi, everybody:
I have looked at the Polycom entries on www.voip-info.org, and they're
outdated and convoluted and full of errors.
All I want to do is get my Polycom 501 to register with a working
Asterisk server. I want
Stephen Bosch wrote:
All I want to do is get my Polycom 501 to register with a working
Asterisk server. I want to do the configuration locally on the phone
through the console.
The console is very tedious. Why not use the web interface instead? Let
the phone get an IP address via DHCP and
