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IP phones - Unix DHCP vs Windows DHCP 1

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arenine

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Oct 7, 2002
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I have my 4620 working using static IP addresses. I want to take the next step and obtain the IP addresses via DHCP. We use a Unix DHCP server. The Unix DHCP server is setup w/ the address range, gateway, subnet mask and the location of the TFTP server.

How do I specify the TFTP server file path?

How do I specify the option 176 (CLan and UDP port 1719)?

arenine
 
I have the LAN guide but it does not talk about a Unix based DHCP setup.

arenine
 
Well, thats where you as a Unix admin comes into play.. It all deponds on the DHCPD. There are several different ones out there, so you just need to do a option 176 as an ascii based feature..


BuckWeet
 
found some info

bascially you have to define your options

in the dhcpd.conf file you need to make an option

example:

option (optionname) codec 176 = text;
(optionname being what you want to call it)

then

option ipphone "MCIPADD=x.x.x.x, blah blah"





Hope that helps some.

BuckWeet
 
Thanks

We added to #Global Options
option option-176 "MCIPADD=XXX.XXX.XXX.199,TFTPSRVR=XXX.XXX.XXX.197"

We use DHCP version 2.x

works perfectly

arenine
 
awesome, i actually saw the 2.x material in a provision discussion, but i don't deal with unix that much so i figured 3.x was the lastest and greatest and most widely used..


BuckWeet
 
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