asterisk users - May 2007 - polycom 501 configuration setting

I recently got a polycom 501.

I was trying to get the phone to accept the TFTP boot files.
I was REALLY confused when I finally figured out that
the phone does FTP by default and you have to go change it to TFTP using the
keyboard menus to switch it to TFTP.

Am I missing something here? I certainly would have thought the phone 
would be intelligent
enough to try a FTP first - If you dont get what you want, then try TFTP 
then HTTP or what ever....

My question is: "Is there a different method (other than using ftp) to 
have the phone by default
use TFTP and grab its config without getting into the keyboard menus?"

THanks,

Jerry

Hi:

Jerry Geis wrote:
> I recently got a polycom 501.
> 
> I was trying to get the phone to accept the TFTP boot files.
> I was REALLY confused when I finally figured out that
> the phone does FTP by default and you have to go change it to TFTP using
> the
> keyboard menus to switch it to TFTP.
You only have to change this once; after that the phone will retrieve
configs with TFTP first.

Many people don't bother with TFTP anymore, not least because it's even
less secure than FTP. HTTPS is best for security.

(We use TFTP but only because we're on a private network).
> Am I missing something here? I certainly would have thought the phone
> would be intelligent
> enough to try a FTP first - If you dont get what you want, then try TFTP
> then HTTP or what ever....
> 
> My question is: "Is there a different method (other than using ftp) to
> have the phone by default
> use TFTP and grab its config without getting into the keyboard menus?"
Sadly, no. This means that if you have 500 sets to configure for TFTP,
you'll have to change the setting manually.

I would be happy to be corrected on this.

-Stephen-