First I just want to thank everyone on these forums, I have been able to find countless valuable tidbits to solve some of the issues I have been having.
That being said, I could not find any information to point me in the right direction.
On Arris MTAs (602/604/822/etc) when we do not provision them with phone the mta is constantly bombarding the DHCP server with requests for an address which it in return responds no free leases. Is there any option or configuration that would basically tell the mta if it does not find/receive mac-address.bin to stop trying? And can this be achieved without having to have separate configs for units with voice and units without voice?
TIA
Brandon.
You really need two different DHCP classes/policies, one for data-only and one for data-voice.
Don't put option 122 in the data-only CM offer. Without option 122, the MTA won't start up.
The actual CM config file doesn't necessarily need need to be different, it's just the DHCP you have to tweak.
Yes, there is an OID, you can configure how many times the MTA will request for an IP before giving up, I think default is 15 times, there is also an algorithm on how long to wait between each request.