[cisco-voip] Upgrading 7970 firmware to 8.0(3): local TFTP server?

[Robert Kulagowski]

[Bump.  Any ideas?]

Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> I'm upgrading a number of our remote offices to 8.0(3) for the 7970. I'm 
> currently getting only 7kbytes/sec over the WAN from the publisher, so 
> each phone is taking a long time to perform the upgrade. If I attempt to 
> upgrade too many at the same time, some will fail to finish and not load 
> the new firmware.
> 
> I've uploaded the various 8.0(3) files up to the router, and configured 
> the tftp-server commands on the router so that it serves up the files. 
> I've temporarily changed option 150 to point at the router rather than 
> the publisher.
> 
> I've reset one of the phones and took a look at what it's trying to do 
> (deb tftp events), and it's trying to download the existing firmware 
> (7-0-2) from the router rather than the the 8.0(3).  Is there something 
> that describes the phone boot process so I can force it to load the new 
> firmware from a local resource rather than over the (slow) WAN?
> 
> Any other throughts on how to upgrade a large number of phones over the 
> WAN?