Scott Lawrence wrote:
> 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.
> 

Make sense to me: yank it. So that means you are not taking patch for
http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-1030, right?
D.

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