We have new Polycomm phones from Charter. We had a Charter tech come out because our phones didnt work after they did for a few days. Got a ring tone that is it. Tried in another location. I was needed to be present as IT guy when the Charter tech came out. I joked to him and said all i could do is ping from the phone if it had the option. The Charter line man guy laughed and phoned in to a few admins on advice. Non knew anything about these phones connectivity. Suppose to run out of box once RC is setup apparently. Anyways the tech gave up and told us to contact RC support, which didnt know what do do either. I then poked around the phone's menu and was able to view the TCP parameters and send out a ping to 8.8.8.8 (which failed). I found the gateway IP was wrong, 192.168.1.178, should be .1 The DNS IP was stale too using an recently decommissioned DNS days prior for lookup. I figured there was a release and renew option for the client, but i couldnt find it. I tried to get into the Advanced section hoping it was here but was prompted by an unknown password.
Funny my 10 minutes of poking around exceeded the Charter tech's abilities.
How can i force an updated LAN IP? Power cycling didnt do the trick.