asterisk users - Jun 2003 - ATA losing registration problems solved by setting tftp

For all thos Asterisk users not on the FWD list, it works for me!:

-----Original Message-----
From: Free World Dialup - The Future of Dialing
[mailto:FWD@LISTSERV.PULVER.COM] On Behalf Of Leonidas Piagkos
Sent: donderdag 12 juni 2003 0:58
To: FWD@LISTSERV.PULVER.COM
Subject: Re: [FWD] FWD losing Registration


Hi Don,

All you have to do with your ATA is to set the following parameters as :

UseTftp = 1
CfgInterval = 1800
TftpURL = 192.168.0.x (any internal IP)

This parameters enables the auto-provisioning of your ATA device though a
TFTP server every 30 minutes. This operation helps your ATA to be always
alive and of caurse solves your problem :)  Even If you dont have any TFTP
server installed on your local network, your ATA will try to provision
itself from the IP that you enter on TftpURL and always stays alve :)))

Of caurse, this is a way that I found (after thousands of hours of research
and telephone speaking with Cisco support), it does not solves realy the
'bug' of ATA's formware (in all versions). All it does, is that make
a
simple automatic-reset on your device every 1800 seconds (30 minutes).  And
this because its time the ATA provisions itself, makes and a reset also!!!
End even if 'hungs-up' again in between 30minutes, it will be fine after
the
next auto-provisioning....

You cannot imaging how many hours I spend from my life in the telephones,
for describing this problem of ATA to the Cisco Tech Support.  And from
then, Cisco had release many new firmwares for ATAs...  But until now, I
never see something relative on the 'fix - lists' of eatch release.... 
Who
knows.... Im still so young....... :(((((

Enjoy....

Leonidas Piagkos
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Free World Dialup - The Future of Dialing 
> [mailto:FWD@LISTSERV.PULVER.COM]On Behalf Of Russell, Don
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 7:04 PM
> To: FWD@LISTSERV.PULVER.COM
> Subject: Re: FWD losing Registration
>
>
> I have a similar problem with a Cisco 186.... turning on "debug
trace"
> on the ATA, shows that it gets a "403 Forbidden" reply from 
> fwd.pulver.com
>
> When that happens, the ATA stops registering at "RegInterval"
seconds.
>
> When I reset the ATA ( via http: //<ata ip address>/reset ) then 
> everything is OK (for a while)
>
> I can make outgoing calls, but not incoming because my firewall 
> "closes up" if the registration is not periodic.
>
> Not much help here, but you're not alone, and maybe I gave you 
> something to look into (403 Forbidden?)
>
> Don Russell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W Hills [mailto:fwd@WHISPERING.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:58 PM
> To: FWD@LISTSERV.PULVER.COM
> Subject: [FWD] FWD losing Registration
>
>
> With a Grandstream Sip phone I lose registration after about one day 
> ,sometimes less .This means that I am no longer visible as being on 
> the FWD network and cannot receive calls .I have spoken to people with 
> an ATA and some of them have a similar problem yet others do not . Is 
> this an issue with the FWD servers or with the outbound Proxy and is 
> this something
> that will get fixed any time soon ? The people with this problem need to
> reboot their devices often to be able to be registered on FWD to receive
> calls and this is obviously not ideal .
>