Problem with trixbox Pro and Cisco 7960 phones running 7.x firmware
Submitted by jmlivingston on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 4:34pm.
Just ran into a bug on Cisco phones running their 7.x firmware today that I thought you Fonality guys out to be aware of.
I have a client who was having issues with some handsets not displaying the date and time at the top left of the screen.
Turns out that this is a known Cisco bug (bug ID: CSCsa96616) when the SIPDefault.cnf file has the sntp_mode: variable set to "DirectedBroadcast". The fix is to change the value of that variable to "anycast". The reason I mention it here, is that "anycast" is the default recommended value from Cisco according to their documentation.
This has me in a situation where I've had to put a hand-edited file onto a Pro system at my client. I'm concerned that this one-off is likely not backed up by the main Fonality server.
Can the default value for this variable be updated to "anycast"?
Thanks,
John Livingston, Engineer
www.ipphoneshack.com
Hey John,
Cisco phones are a
Mon, 04/14/2008 - 5:15pm
Hey John,
Cisco phones are a bear for us for a number of reasons, which is why they specifically do not appear on our 'supported' list. However, I have submitted an engineering request to get this template changed. It is far too late for tbPro 2.0 - but it is on the list nonetheless.
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks!
Mon, 04/14/2008 - 5:35pm
Thanks Mike, that's all I can ask for. Just for your records I modified a couple other non-essential lines and here they are:
Original SIPDefault.cnf:
sntp_mode: DirectedBroadcast
sntp_server: ""
time_zone: EST
telnet: 1
My changes to SIPDefault.cnf:
sntp_mode: Anycast <---- Cisco's recommended setting
sntp_server: xx.xx.xx.xx <---- IP of TrixPro Server
time_zone: PST <---- To match the timezone of the server
telnet: 2 <---- Allows priv telnet mode on phone.
Again, thanks for taking a look at this.
John
Member Since:
2007-09-22