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

Matthew Saskin matt at saskin.net
Wed Jan 2 17:33:34 EST 2008


There's a service parameter to enable generation of the config xml files 
to disk.  I suppose you could write some script to keep these synced to 
a non-cm TFTP server.

-matt

Bill Simon wrote:
> 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
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