CONFIGURING THE SIP PHONE
6 DOWNLOADER
This chapter describes how to configure the SIP phone downloader. The SIP downloader is initially configured through the installation scripts. Use this chapter to edit any SIP downloader information.
Configuring the SIP Use this section to configure the SIP phone downloader. The Local Device Phone Downloader Name needs to be changed to what ever your host is configured as.
CAUTION: If using a dual download environment, two issues can arise: 1) The WAN link utilization can be stressed during a large download (especially if the primary server is down). For example, if you have a large number of phones pointing to a primary download server on the LAN and a secondary download server that sits across a WAN. If the primary building takes a power hit, the download server might take 15 minutes or more to recover, but the phones will all reboot in a few seconds and begin looking for their download. This will begin to flood the WAN link.
2)If there is a version mismatch, you could get into a situation where phones go into a continuous cycle of rebooting and downloading.
Choose one of the 2 Ethernet interfaces (recommend eth1) you want this SIP phone downloader to use.
In super user mode, type the following to print a list of the various downloaders:
ifconfig