Chapter 4
Configuring Settings on the Cisco Unified IP Phone
Table 4-17
Network Configuration Menu Options (continued)
Option
Description
Peer Firmware
The Peer Firmware Sharing feature
Sharing
provides these advantages in high
speed campus LAN settings:
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Peer Firmware Sharing may also aid in
firmware upgrades in branch/remote
office deployment scenarios over
bandwidth-limited WAN links.
When enabled, it allows the phone to
discover like phones on the subnet that
are requesting the files that make up the
firmware image, and to automatically
assemble transfer hierarchies on a
per-file basis. The individual files
making up the firmware image are
retrieved from the TFTP server by only
the root phone in the hierarchy, and are
then rapidly transferred down the
transfer hierarchy to the other phones
on the subnet using TCP connections.
This menu option indicates whether the
phone supports Peer Firmware Sharing.
Settings include:
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Log Server
Indicates the IP address and port of the
remote logging machine to which the
phone sends log messages. These log
messages help in debugging the Peer
Firmware Sharing feature.
Note
Related Topics
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OL-12650-01
Limits congestion on TFTP
transfers to centralized TFTP
servers
Eliminates the need to manually
control firmware upgrades
Reduces phone downtime during
upgrades when large numbers of
devices are reset simultaneously
Enabled
Disabled—default
The remote logging setting
does not affect the sharing log
messages sent to the phone log.
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