On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:11 -0500, Paul Mossman wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone think of a good reason to keep the Polycom "SIP Settings in > DHCP" screen around? > > It is cumbersome to use with sipXecs, and I don't think there's a good > use case for doing so anyway. > > Basically, it can be used to configure the Polycom to get the SIP > server address from DHCP. It still requires Line configuration > (Username and Password), but if a SIP server is also configured then > any DHCP value will be ignored. > > In sipXconfig all new Lines (Internal or External) must include a SIP > server value. You can however go back and clear the SIP server value > after the Line is created, which would allow a DHCP value to be used > instead. > > There is no reason to do this for an Internal Line though, because it > will only work if the DHCP value is always exactly the same as what > sipXconfig would use. > > For an External Line it is even quite a stretch. If your system has > Polycoms with External Lines then each is probably an exception, > rather than many using the same external SIP server. It seems > unlikely to me that an administrator would have a desire to use DHCP > (instead of sipXconfig) to change the SIP server address that the > External Line on a Polycom registers with. > > I propose getting rid of this screen entirely. > > If there are no objections then I'll proceed. Let me know. Thanks.
I don't think there is any use for such a parameter in a sipXecs configuration. _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users
