Andrew Furey wrote: >Huh? My 7905 takes well under 10 seconds, including Asterisk >registration and NTP update. Granted, if it were DHCP it might take >marginally longer, but 5 _minutes_? > > Yeah, the Polycoms *do* take a while to boot -- but not five minutes. I've timed mine (Polycom 501's) and it's 1:25. Ain't exactly zippy, but for something that only reboots when I'm servicing it, it's acceptable. Aside from that, I really dig the Polycom phones: good looks, good audio, good menuing. [Note: the x01's are a fair improvement over the x00's, which took a smidge longer to boot, and had not-as-nice menus and overall look-and-feel.] As for someone complaining that you had to hand-edit the XML files, instead of using a nice GUI... guess what: that's what scripting is for. I can tell you that I'll spend 15 minutes to write a script, and be able to spawn it onto 50 phones in ten seconds ANY DAY over having to fire up a browser to those same 50 phones. And God help you if you had a "real" number of phones to change.
For that matter, some day I'll get off my lazy a** and write something that talks to the dhcpd.leases file and auto-provisions new phones. -Ken >Andrew > >-- >Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same >reason that only children read books with only pictures in them. >Language, be it English or something else, is the only tool flexible >enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of tasks. > -- Bill Garrett >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users