Firmware Update Question
Submitted by lotus99v8 on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 3:30pm.
I just completed upgrading my trixbox appliance form 2.6 to 2.8. Once complete, I decelided to make sure my grandstream 2020 and ht286 devices had the latest firmware.
Previously the devices were configured to use DHCP option 66 which pointed them to the TFTP server on the trixbox to download the firmware and config file. I noticed that the firmware in the tftp directory for the Grandstream devices was older than that which is available on the Grandstream website.
I downloaded the firmware and put them in a subdirectory of the tftp site, one for the GXP and one for the HT devices. I separated them because it appears that they have overlapping named files yet the files were not the same. This is different from the way tribox had it as it had all the Grandstream files on the tftp root directory. I reset each phone to download the firmware and configuration via TFTP from 192.168.20.20/grandstream/gxp or 192.168.20.20/grandstream/ht. This is where I put the firmware downloaded from Grandstream.
My question is, is this correct or do I need to get the configuration from the one supplied by trixbox in the tftp root directory. The phones appear to be working fine.
The firmware I am using is:
Release_BT200_GXP_1.2.2.19
Release_HT486-HT286_1.1.0.42
Joe
Grandstream Firmware
Fri, 01/01/2010 - 4:08pm
The Grandstream firmware files keep the same file name regardless of the release version. If you copy the new firmware to your existing tftp folder you will have to overwrite the existing firmware. This is exactly the same for the Aastra phone firmware files too.
So if you have told your phone that its tftp server is now something other than your trixbox server then you will have to copy the config file from the trixbox server to the new tftp server if it needs to download it. The phone will function just fine if it can't download a config file as it will just keep using the config it already has. You should only need to copy the config file over if your phone has been factory reset and lost its existing config.
Regards,
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2009-01-27