HTTP's nice, but FTP does the job. Check the docs for supported FTP servers -- many of the stock Linux FTP servers will give the exact problem you discussed, below. I should know -- took me almost a week before trying proftpd, and WHAMMO, worked like a champ.
-Ken On Tue, March 7, 2006 12:37 pm, William M Conlon wrote: > I spent a weekend battling similar issues with 501s, using FC4/ > proftpd. I finally switched from FTP to HTTP. > > > On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > > >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> Please forgive the exclamation points but I have been battling >> this one off and on for about four days now. Sorry for the cross post. >> >> It all started with a box of IP 501s. I contacted my reseller and >> obtained the latest BootRom and SIP firmware. Unzipped, configured, >> copied over to my FTP server (running AstLinux, of course). The phone >> booted, so far so good. Updated bootrom, nice. Rebooted again. Updated >> sip firmware. Also nice. >> >> Upon the next reboot, the wheels started falling off. The phones >> would not get changes I made to any of the .cfg files. Several phones >> would take 20 minutes or more to boot, only to display a "0x4000 config >> file error". What happened? >> >> I have been using various Polycom's with AstLinux (and vsftpd >> 2.0.3 that I include with it) for quite some time, with no problems >> whatsoever. Until now. >> >> I had been running bootrom 3.0.1 and various versions of the SIP >> image at several other sites with no problem. At this point I was still >> unable to accept the fact that I might not be able to run this latest >> bootrom. After many trial and tribulations, I finally rsync'ed (with >> -avr) the FTP directory from the AstLinux machine to >> my laptop running CentOS 4. I configured the vsftpd daemon (version >> 2.0.1) IDENTICALLY (with the exception of PAM and TCP >> wrappers) and crossed my fingers... >> >> After re-configuring the IP 501 to use my laptop, imagine my >> surprise when the most problematic of them booted right away without >> problems. Again and again, everything was fine. >> >> So now I just had to break out ethereal and see what was going on. >> While I have not completely finished my analysis, it appears that >> Polycom firmware 3.1.3 bombs out when transferring files with >> vsftpd 2.0.3. The symptom appears to be repeated TCP SYNs from the >> Polycom to the ftp daemon on port 20. The Polycom will keep >> retrying and increment its source port number by one every few minutes. >> Like I said, I need to dig into this more, but I figured >> I'd report what I know and see if anyone out there can fill in the >> holes. >> >> Here's what I did. It appears that BootRom 3.1.3 works with >> vsftpd 2.0.1, so I placed bootrom 3.0.1 (which I know works with vsftpd >> 2.0.3) on my CentOS server and downgraded the phone to >> 3.0.1. I then placed 3.0.1 and SIP app 1.6.5 (which I was using >> the whole time, btw) on my AstLinux server running vsftpd 2.0.3. >> >> All was good. So now I am successfully running with the following: >> >> >> Polycom IP 501 >> Bootrom 3.0.1 >> SIP 1.6.5 >> AstLinux 0.3.7 >> vsftpd 2.0.3 >> >> I will also try to fix (or workaround) this by trying the following: >> >> >> upgrading AstLinux to include vsftpd 2.0.4 trying an intermediate >> BootRom release between 3.0.1 and 3.1.3 >> (find out exactly where/when it broke) >> trying an even newer Polycom BootRom when it becomes available upgrading >> the kernel in AstLinux (I doubt that's it) fiddling with iptables rules >> in AstLinux (iptables was loaded, but obviously 3.0.1 doesn't have a >> problem with it) >> >> This also might be related to the problems described here: >> >> >> http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php? >> p=14847&sid=6e70577c37bd345cfc164a01e64e113a >> >> >> Any thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? >> >> >> P.S. - I will be updating the Polycom config files at http:// >> www.krisk.org/asterisk/pcom/ to reflect some new changes in this firmware >> release. I just need to get my phones working first :)! >> >> -- >> Kristian Kielhofner >> _______________________________________________ >> --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 >> > > Bill > > > William M. Conlon, P.E., Ph.D. > To the Point > 345 California Avenue Suite 2 > Palo Alto, CA 94306 > vox: 650.327.2175 (direct) > fax: 650.329.8335 > mobile: 650.906.9929 > e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.tothept.com > > > _______________________________________________ > --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