I'd like to start configuring my Avaya 9608G phones for use on Asterisk / 
FreePBX / PBX-In-a-Flash. I'm using a variety of other phones on my system 
without major issues.

I've read the discussion back in March, May and August of 2016, but 
unfortunately, my difficulty is much more basic. I think it has to do with 
DHCP, specifically, what options I'm offering the phone via DHCP.


  1.  I haven't even gotten the phone to look for any files on my asterisk 
server. I know this because the only traffic on my asterisk server going to or 
from the phone is ARP packets. Here's a tcpdump:

$ tcpdump -v -vv host 10.194.138.245
tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes

10:07:57.256579 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: ICMP 
(1), length: 48) dhcpserver.mcts.org > 10.194.138.245: ICMP echo request, id 
47332, seq 0, length 28
10:07:59.215981 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0
10:08:00.216237 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0
10:08:02.563742 arp who-has firewall.mcts.org (Broadcast) tell 10.194.138.245


  1.  The question of boot protocol isn't settled at all-many people say go 
ahead and use tftp (which would be nice, since all my other phones do) but 
there's this document https://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100176078 
that says in part: (page 56)

HTTP Generic Setup
You can store the binary file, upgrade file, and settings file on an HTTP 
server. With proper
administration, the deskphone seeks out and uses that material. Some 
functionality might be
lost by a reset if the HTTP server is unavailable.

Note:
If you used TFTP to provide the binary, upgrade, and settings files to older 
Avaya
IP telephones, note that 9600 Series IP Telephones do not support TFTP; you
must use HTTP or HTTPS instead.

This shouldn't matter, as I think I have provided for both- I added a new 
directory to my apache config files on my asterisk server, which opens fine in 
a web browser: 
http://astserver.mcts.org/voipcfg/<http://ad-apbx.mcts.org/voipcfg/> And I do 
have those same files in the tftpboot directory, so if it was trying to use 
tftp, I'd see that.

/tftpboot is r-x to everyone, so are all the subdirectories, and the avaya 
files are all 744 (owned by root.)

It contains an index page that just says "hello world" and all the config and 
upgrade files I downloaded from Avaya. But the phone never looks for anything 
on this server.  It's got 46xxsettings.txt 96x1Supgrade.txt and some tar files 
and bin files. But the tcpdump tells me it never checks.


  1.  The docs I've been able to find talk about DHCP option 242 and 176, which 
I've never used before.

All I know about are options like this:

        pool {
                range dynamic-bootp 10.194.138.241 10.194.138.254;
                allow  members of "avaya-phones";
                deny members of "sophos";
                  # 10.194.141.251 is asterisk server
                #option tftp161                  "http://10.194.141.251";;
                option tftp161                  "10.194.141.251";
                option tftp162                  "/voipcfg";
                next-server 10.194.141.251;
             }


DHCP is doing some things right for this phone:

14:22:14.020926 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 tell dhcpserver
14:22:15.001014 IP (tos 0x10, ttl  16, id 0, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP 
(17), length: 330) dhcpserver.bootps > 10.194.138.245.bootpc: BOOTP/DHCP, 
Reply, length: 302, xid:0x2c46f14e, flags: [none]
          Your IP: 10.194.138.245
          Server IP: astserver.mcts.org
          Client Ethernet Address: 50:cd:22:b4:7c:a6 (oui Unknown)
          Vendor-rfc1048:
            DHCP:OFFER
            SID:dhcpserver
            LT:144000
            SM:255.255.0.0
            DG:firewall.mcts.org
            DN:"transit.mcts.org"
            NS:domainc1.transit.mcts.org,domainc2.transit.mcts.org
            NTP:dhcpserver
14:22:15.020927 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 tell dhcpserver
14:22:16.020925 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 tell dhcpserver
14:22:16.061936 IP (tos 0x10, ttl  16, id 0, offset 0, flags [none], proto: UDP 
(17), length: 330) dhcpserver.bootps > 10.194.138.245.bootpc: BOOTP/DHCP, 
Reply, length: 302, xid:0x2c46f14e, flags: [none]
          Your IP: 10.194.138.245
          Server IP: astserver.mcts.org
          Client Ethernet Address: 50:cd:22:b4:7c:a6 (oui Unknown)
          Vendor-rfc1048:
            DHCP:ACK
            SID:dhcpserver
            LT:144000
            SM:255.255.0.0
            DG:firewall.mcts.org
            DN:"transit.mcts.org"
            NS:domainc1.transit.mcts.org,domainc2.transit.mcts.org
            NTP:dhcpserver
14:22:16.232035 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0
14:22:17.232318 arp who-has 10.194.138.245 (Broadcast) tell 0.0.0.0
14:22:19.575743 arp who-has firewall.mcts.org (Broadcast) tell 10.194.138.245

Anyone have any clues?


Thomas M. Peters | Sr. Systems Administrator |  
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