Douglas Garstang, Your inability to keep your mouth shut (err hands closed when writing emails) is sometimes astonishing.
On 3/7/06, Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Docs? Polycom has docs? Where would one find this fabled land of... err I > mean Polycom does stating what ftp servers are supported? > > Doug. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken D'Ambrosio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:12 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Polycom BootRom 3.1.3 and vsftpd 2.0.3 > > > 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. 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