asterisk users - May 2011 - Cisco 7940 phone and tftpd provisioning - for ever?

Hi all,

Sorry for posting here - but I figured there are many people with Cisco 
IP phones here - and I use them with Asterisk :-)

I have a couple of Cisco 7940 phones. I've loaded the SIP firmware OK, 
loaded the SIP configuration files OK, they work with Asterisk just fine.

My question is - will I have to keep on running the tftp server for them 
for ever and ever? Isn't there any option for them to just use the 
settings they have already loaded form the tftp server - so that I can 
kill tftpd on my server machine? I tried doing that, and then the phones 
stop booting, going in a loop looking for the tftpd server.

It seems a bit pointless, having to run the tftpd daemon all the time - 
although I've already loaded the firmware and configurations I want.

Thank you,

Sebastian

I have my tftp daemon running all the time and it really doesnt affect 
the performance of the machine. Is there a reason why you want to shut 
it down?

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On 5/8/2011 5:19 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for posting here - but I figured there are many people with 
> Cisco IP phones here - and I use them with Asterisk :-)
>
> I have a couple of Cisco 7940 phones. I've loaded the SIP firmware OK, 
> loaded the SIP configuration files OK, they work with Asterisk just fine.
>
> My question is - will I have to keep on running the tftp server for 
> them for ever and ever? Isn't there any option for them to just use 
> the settings they have already loaded form the tftp server - so that I 
> can kill tftpd on my server machine? I tried doing that, and then the 
> phones stop booting, going in a loop looking for the tftpd server.
>
> It seems a bit pointless, having to run the tftpd daemon all the time 
> - although I've already loaded the firmware and configurations I want.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sebastian
>
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