On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:15 -0400, Dave Fullerton wrote: > #2 might be possible, but there's a lot of "depends on" factors. > > The ISC dhcpd often packaged in linux distributions has the ability to > specify different dhcp options to different "pools" of addresses. You > can then assign clients to pools based on a substring match of their mac > address. This then requires that the client (phone) will use the URL > specified in dhcp option 66. With all this put together you can assign > each brand of phone to its own pool/options where the options point it > to a URL containing the firmware for that brand of phone. > > I do this with my polycom phones and it works well. Don't know if it > works with other brands of phones.
I've done this on a number of different phones, using both the ISC dhcpd server as well as dnsmasq. I've never encountered any problems with it. -- Jared Smith Training Manager Digium, Inc. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users