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I know this has been asked and answered many times before.... But It has been 3 years now. Is there still nothing out about using the ethernet port on these processors? I would love to be able to administer my system over the network.. I could see using it to change settings and extensions weekly if not daily as the little things changed... Not to mention the ease of changing customers settings from across town or across the state..

This may be a touchy subject as well, but are there any hacked or third party firmware updates out there that enable other features?

Thanks, I am new to this board, but have been selling Partner systems for years.. I am a little rusty on it and found this board while researching information.

The downside to remote programming the ACS is the need to power-cycle the processor in order for changes to take effect. Local programming will give you instant results.

This may be a touchy subject as well, but are there any hacked or third party firmware updates out there that enable other features?

This isn't the computer world. I have never heard of anybody even attempting to hack the Partner. Why bother, it does pretty much everything it's hardware allows already.

-Hal

The ethernet port on the Partner R.7 is of no value at this time.
It was put on the new platform of the R.7 for future use period.

And as for your hack question............this board or anyone on it deals in hacking. So you barked up the wrong tree. Sorry.

I didn't mean to get flamed on the hacking question and hacking is probably a poor choice of words... But in todays world plenty of people release third party firmware for all kinds of electronics. It has just always bugged me that they built a dead ethernet port into the processor over 3 years ago and nothing has ever been done with it.

My primary business is Dish Network and they have just recently turned on the ethernet ports on the HD receivers, but not to use it for what everyone would like (data transfer between receivers). When we go to the Dish conferences they always have 3-4 vendors there that have hacked (I know bad word) the software, ethernet ports or USB ports (which the R7 lacks as well) to acomplish anything from wireless surround sound to controlling dirty words in programming.

Personally I'm not a programmer so I don't know exactly what could be accomplished from other firmware but I would love to see more interaction with PC networks, use the ethernet port to initiate auto-dialing from a contact database or connect 2 R7's via LAN/WAN/Internet to become 1, storing caller ID logs on a server, logging calls to a server and plenty of other features. I know most of this can be accomplished other ways but ethernet is just plain easy and mainstream.

As has been said before, the Partner line seemed to become the red-headed stepchild behind IP Office which is really a shame because the partner is a work horse and IP Office doesn't fit every bill.

I guess I have seen some hacking being done in at least my opinion in the field. I have pulled configs in the form of txt files from old systems, and then pulled the configs from newer systems in the same txt form, adapted the old txt's to the new txt's format in order to allow the old txt to be uploaded to the new system when there was no upgrade path without reprogramming from scratch in the manual between the old, and new releases. I am sure others have done the same thing at times, as it makes an upgrade a 5 minute job in txt format vs. programming from scratch in some situations. Granted this was more with Toshiba systems than avaya I am speaking of.

The Ethernet port on the PARTNER ACS R7 has never been active. It was a "future". In more recent modules, the port was actually pulled off the processor.

But stay tuned... don't count PARTNER ACS and down and out just yet....

Ron Rogers
PARTNER ACS Product Manager