asterisk users - Feb 2005 - Can you set up a phone via MAC address?

Is it possible to configure a sip phone by MAC address instead of by IP 
address? Obviously if you're using DHCP it's not a good idea to set up 
phones by IP address - so how can someone set up a sip phone by MAC 
address?

Thanks,

Philip

What phone?  I use polycoms and configure via ftp.  They pickup their
config based on their mac address.  They will register fine and asterisk
will know the ip based on registration information.

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:01, Philip Trauring wrote:
> Is it possible to configure a sip phone by MAC address instead of by IP 
> address? Obviously if you're using DHCP it's not a good idea to set
up
> phones by IP address - so how can someone set up a sip phone by MAC 
> address?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philip
> 
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On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:01 +0200, Philip Trauring
wrote:
> Is it possible to configure a sip phone by MAC address instead of by IP 
> address? Obviously if you're using DHCP it's not a good idea to set
up
> phones by IP address - so how can someone set up a sip phone by MAC 
> address?
If you cross a router you will no longer have the MAC address available.
You shouldn't have to use the IP address if the username and password is
getting used properly.

Also you should look into configuring your DHCP to hand out specific IP
addresses to the specific MAC address. Then it is the same until you
need to change things. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>