[cisco-voip] [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Ephone mac address for shared line

[Jonathan Charles]

It should only auto-populate if you have auto-registration enabled...
don't do it

You lose control over the phones and DN assignments...



Jonathan

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Vik Ahuja <vikahuja32 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes that's what I was referring to, I just was wondering why sometimes the
> MAC address was automatically populated and sometimes not. I made the
> assumption that it was only needed when configuring shared lines because the
> router prompted me for this when I was attempting to configure the shared
> line feature. In any case, I did some further reading and am clear on it
> now.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you talking about the ephone-dn?
>
> The mac-address is required to ID the device (and to name its config
> file) as it attempts to register... it has nothing to do with shared
> lines and is a requirement for all ephones.
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Vik Ahuja wrote:
> > Maybe a simple question, I'm wondering what the significance of having the
> > mac address configured under a shared line for ephone?, why is this a
> > requirment?....thanks for your answers...
> >
> >
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Vik Ahuja
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