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

[Paul Choi]

I'm not sure you'd need Cisco's TFTP server for that.
I am guessing that those XML configuration files are
dynamically generated by the CallManager service and
could hence be stored on a *nix server easily. I could
be mistaken.

--- Bill Simon <bills at psu.edu> 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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