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

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

That's the biggest thing, update a phone via CCMadmin and then you have to 
manually update the TFTP server with that file.

The infoblox appliance supposedly has an agent that takes care of that for 
you.

One of my worries is updating the service parameter that rights these files 
for 7500 devices - I can't imagine how long that would take.

What I don't understand is why CCM doesn't have a parameter that says 
"location of external TFTP server" and allows you to put in an IP address. 
It could then update the files on that remote server via, um, let me guess, 
TFTP?????

It's a conspiracy I tell you.

Somebody out there is laughing to himself, "muhahahahahahaha, lelio will 
never get forwarding on his secondary lines"

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Saskin" <matt at saskin.net>
To: "Bill Simon" <bills at psu.edu>
Cc: "Cisco VoIPoE List" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] *nix box for DHCP/TFTP


> 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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