Before You Upgrade; Please Read Before Upgrading Your Phone - Aastra 6700i series Instruction Manual

SIP IP Phone Models 6700i and 9000i Series Phones Release Notes

Before you upgrade

Please read before upgrading your phone

Note:
The following information applies to all IP phones EXCEPT the 6739i.
If you have a firmware version on your phone prior to 2.3, please read the following
IMPORTANT information before upgrading the phones:
• LLDP is enabled by default
If LLDP is enabled on your network, the phones may come up with different net-
work settings. For more information about LLDP, see the Aastra Models 9000i and
6700i Series SIP IP Phones Administrator Guide.
• Support for DHCP Options 159 and 160
If the DHCP server supplies Options 159 and 160, the phones will attempt to con-
tact the configuration server given in these options. For more information about
Options 159 and 160, see the Aastra Models 9000i and 6700i Series SIP IP Phones
Administrator Guide.
• HTTPS validation
If you are using HTTPS and the certificates are not valid or are not signed by Veri-
sign, Thawte, or GeoTrust, the phones fail to download configuration files. For more
information about HTTPS validation, see the Aastra Models 9000i and 6700i Series
SIP IP Phones Administrator Guide.
• WatchDog task feature
If the phone detects a failure (for example, a crash), the phone automatically
reboots. For more information about the WatchDog feature, see the Aastra Models
9000i and 6700i Series SIP IP Phones Administrator Guide.
Note:
If you factory default a phone with Release 2.3 and above software, when the phone
reboots, it attempts to connect to rcs.aastra.com. There is no personal information
transmitted from the phone and the phone continues to boot up as normal.
Warning:
Applicable to IP Phone Models 6730i and 6731i only:
The default negotiation setting for the Ethernet ports on the phones is "auto-nego-
tiation". If you have changed this default setting to another value (i.e., Half Duplex or
Full Duplex), you MUST set the negotiation value back to the default value of "auto-
negotiation" before upgrading to Release 3.2. Failure to do so may cause the phone
to fail to connect to the network. In addition, downgrade will not be possible.
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