Cisco 7960 to SIP

topsoff

Hello there..
Newbie to this particular forum so I hope you will bear with me. I have two cisco 7960’s IP phones that I want to SIP. One has successfully taken the SIP f/w boots up and registers with third party SIP server. The other phone just won’t play ball at all. When booting up it only gets two files from my tftp server, the sipmac.cnf and the OS79xx.txt. for some reason it doesn’t get the SIPDefault and therefore won’t get the rest. No idea why.

But that appears to be only half the problem. When the phone is booting up it constantly displays the following message “ Call Manager Name DNS Error “ and the when i try and amend any of the settings in Network Configuration option some of the options are locked even though the phone is unlocked. Message also tells me that some keys aren’t active here.

The current f/w versions are: Application Load ID P003AM30 and Boot Load ID PC03A300.

Would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction..
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Patrickof

Double check you have the files names exactly correct, i.e. the correct MAC address on the relevant files. (You can verfiy them against the ones from the working phone)

In relation to the greyed out options, the only thing I can think of is that some options go grey depending on what is already configured within the same menu. For example, if you select Settings 3.30 DHCP (I've a cisco 7940), DHCP Enabled to YES, then the IP addres field is greyed out as you can't manually change it.

topsoff

the sipmac.cnf is the correct file ie the mac address of the phone. i can see that from the status option on the phone.

i've disabled the dhcp and was trying to imput the config manually. one thing i am unable to change is call manager 1 address. this set to the address of the tftp server for some reason. would this cause issues booting up?

i thought that you only required one default.cnf?

this is driving me crazy. can understand why it wont take the default file.

topsoff

i've disabled dhcp on the phone and this a non-call manager solution by the way.

topsoff

Hi Pat,

got that working now. both phones are now sipped.. i had to rename the mac files to SEP????? followed by the mac address. go figure..

You dont happen to know anything about dialplan.xml? i can get the sip phones to dial internally but trying to dial a mobile for example aint happening!

Patrickof

Well done!

I don't use a dialplan.xml, my phones link to a Linksys STA-9000 (sort of a mini PBX) and this has a dial plan configured on it. Not at all the same as the .xml format though.

topsoff

had a play around with the dialplan.xml file and now I'm able to dial the stations externally. still having an issue with outbound but I'd say its just a matter of tinkering with the xml (dont know any xml!)

thanks for you help.

ps. you dont use Asterix?