is some one from digium reading this thread. !! Looks like they have a ready and a big market for this device. And all they need to do is invest say 6 man months of development effort :)
come on digium do it !! How about making the firmware open source so we can hack on it ... t On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:37:02 -0500, Dana Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:13:12 -0500, Time Bandit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So how am I going to provision the device in the first place, to be > > > able to dial this extension, if I don't even know the IP? > > Oups, sorry, didn't think about this one. > > > > Check winiaxyprov, the version 1.01 can scan your network to find > > IAXy. Now the only thing we need is for Digium to write the MAC > > address on the device before sending it in the open world. Because if > > you have more than one on your network, you can't really know which > > one you need to provision. > > > > hth > > Yeah, I found that app earlier in the thread and thanked whoever it > was (maybe you, can't remember) for linking to it. It's handy, as I > had no way to determine the MAC or IP address prior to this, my IAXys > kinda sat on the shelf collecting dust. (I did bring one home and > plugged it into my Linksys router, but that's hardly an option in a > large IT organization with many IAXys.) > > My company has thousands of entries in the DHCP server, and it would > take forever to go through each and every one of them. Not to mention > that I, being in the telecom division, do not have access to the DHCP > servers. > > Luckily I actually have a Windows desktop here at work. I'd like a > scanner like that for Linux though. Maybe it's possible with some > other kind of application? > > Anyhow, I still think it wouldn't kill them to add an IP address > feature or something (an alternative would be to allow the iaxyprov > tool to provision by MAC or IP, and yes, start labeling the devices > with their MACs). > > To me, it just doesn't seem like a product that was really ready for > release yet. I think it could be really great after a bit of > development though, and wouldn't discourage Digium from doing so, but > for now, our company can't really use these for many applications. > -- > Dana > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users