[cisco-voip] *nix box for DHCP/TFTP

[Bill Simon]

We use Nominum's DCS product ($) on Solaris to serve DHCP to our voip 
devices as well as many other LANs on campus.  Previously we used ISC 
dhcpd (free) and it worked fine, also.

For TFTP services we just set up a CallManager server and turn on the 
TFTP service only.  Wouldn't you need to use the Cisco TFTP server in 
order to get the dynamically-generated phone configs by TFTP?

Paul Choi wrote:
> I hope nobody takes this as a thread hijacking. I
> wanted to know if anybody uses a plain *nix server for
> their TFTP/DHCP needs as those kind of servers have
> been around for decades and used as such. Are there
> any drawbacks to just setting up a *nix boxen for
> serving DHCP/TFTP needs as opposed to third-party
> applications?
> 
> Paul