OK, so I got to borrow an Avaya 4610SW from work, as it would be faster to play with firmware via TFTP on my home network than it would be when using the business network. These are some notes…
Turn off 802.1q – my network doesn’t do tagging.
Grab the latest firmware from ftp://ftp.avaya.com/incoming/Up1cku9/tsoweb/ip_telephone/071008/ – in this case it was plain old 46xxH323_071008.zip, and extract into TFTP root, or provide symlinks with something like cd /srv/tftp/ ; ln -s Avaya/021612/* .
Turn on the phone, and it collects the following from TFTP…
Mar 6 23:01:59 senior in.tftpd[2619]: RRQ from 172.24.32.29 filename 46xxupgrade.scr
Mar 6 23:01:59 senior in.tftpd[2620]: RRQ from 172.24.32.29 filename 46xxsettings.txt
Mar 6 23:02:05 senior in.tftpd[2622]: RRQ from 172.24.32.29 filename b10d01b2_9.bin
That’ll be the bootloader getting downloaded (or Bootapp, as Avaya like to call it), then saved to flash. It then rebooted, updated with BIG SCARY WARNINGS, rebooted again, and then it picked up these…
Mar 6 23:05:02 senior in.tftpd[2666]: RRQ from 172.24.32.29 filename 46xxupgrade.scr
Mar 6 23:05:03 senior in.tftpd[2674]: RRQ from 172.24.32.29 filename 46xxsettings.txt
Mar 6 23:05:06 senior in.tftpd[2707]: RRQ from 172.24.32.29 filename a10d01b2_9.bin
which were saved to flash again, rebooted, Updated, rebooted, and then off it went.
So, upgrades went smoothly, whilst staying on the H323 featureset. Point proven for the boss, and should be easy to deploy the new firmware after some more testing. I now want to play with SIP…
The above file includes SIP in the downloaded zip file, but APPARENTLY… the SIP firmware is chosen based on the SIG parameter in 46xxsettings.txt. So, essentially, to enable SIP, you just have to enter SET SIG 2 into 46xxsettings.txt and let 46xxupgrade.scr work the magic. However, in my experience, this failed miserably. The phone just carried on blindly using the currently loaded firmware. To manually change the phone into SIP mode, you have to hit Mute, then dial SIG (744), and then hit #. It will then prompt you to change the SIG value. Press * to toggle between H323 and SIP. When ready, press #, and # again to save the setting. After is saves, you get the option to restart the phone. Do so, and it will pick up the new firmware from the TFTP server.
After a short delay whilst it loads s10d01b2_2_2.bin, it’s off and running. As long as you’ve provided some basic SIP details in 46xxsettings.txt, it will prompt for a SIP username and password after a short delay. I believe this can also be automated based on MAC address, according to some conjecture and hearsay on the internet…
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