Alcatel Unleashed

Hello, everyone. I inherited an Alcatel-Lucent 8028 Premium DeskPhone from a closed business and am trying to make it work. I am new to IP telephony, and this seemed like a great way to learn. I have SIP services through my internet provider and hoped to get the phone working with their servers.

I have been working on this for several weeks and grasping most concepts. Here is where I am now in the learning curve:

Known working:
- POE and network connectivity
- DHCP server providing static address
- TFTP server providing requested files over UDP

Not working or missing:
- lanpbx.cfg for SIP configuration
- noesip8028N-header
- noesip8028N
- datsip8028N-header
- datsip8028N

Unknown correctness:
- sipconfig.txt
- sipconfig-xxxxxxxxxxxx.txt

Searching through the internet and referencing the SIP phone installation guide for the 4008/4018 , the instructions say,"‘lanpbx.cfg’ file template: use a text editor to create a very simple file with this contents:"
Various searches on the internet confirmed that this was a valid file for the 4038 also. If I place this file on the TFTP server, it is downloaded, and then the phone screen reports, "1/5 network start, 2/5 network setup, 3/5 config download, bad file content." So, I assume this is not the format the 8028 uses for its SIP configuration.

If I use a format similar to the one referenced here, the phone gets further into the boot process but is in NOE mode, judging from the requests for startnoe* files from the TFTP server.

I can get into the configuration menu on the phone by sequentially pressing the (i) and # keys on startup. If I manually configure the mode for SIP through the Soft Infos menu, the TFTP network traffic hints to header files and binaries that I don't have. Specifically noesip8028N-header, noesip8028N, datsip8028N-header, datsip8028N. These files seem very similar to the ones referenced here, but those are clearly for the 4028 and not the 8028. On the off-chance that the files are compatible, I downloaded and renamed them noesip8028N-header, noesip8028N. Unsurprisingly, after downloading these binaries, the phone reboots and returns to NOE run mode. Here is the output from tcpdump with the phone manually placed into SIP mode.
After many hours of internet searches and running the combinatorics, I seem to be running out of leads.

Does anyone have documentation on
- the file specification or example of a lanpbx.cfg for the 8028N or similar model?
- the binary files noesip8028N-header, noesip8028N, datsip8028N-header, and datsip8028N

The phone reports Version NOE 4.52.20. If there is any other version information that is useful to this discussion, please let me know.

If someone has an 8xxx phone running in SIP mode and can do a packet capture, I am happy to pull apart the capture to assemble these parts for my configuration.

Thank you ahead of time. I am pleasantly frustrated and excited to see if I can get this working instead of the phone going to the landfill.

I have binaries, but not -header. i tested on 8028N and 8068N, it work normaly

Wow - thank you. I will pull this phone out of the box and play some more. I really appreciate the support!

iI'm using issabel PBX.

put the files in server directory: /tftpboot


the sipconfig.txt content:
[dns]
dns_addr=192.168.1.20
dns2_addr=192.168.1.20
hostname=sip8028N

[sip]
sip_enable=1
domain_name=192.168.1.1
proxy_addr=192.168.1.1
proxy_port=5066
registrar_addr=192.168.1.1
registrar_port=5066
sip_transport_mode=1
prack_type=0
preferred_vocoder=0


local_sip_port=5066
register_expire=3600
register_retry=30
user_name=201
authentication_realm=192.168.1.1
authentication_name=201
authentication_password=iptouch
display_name=SIP_DEVICE
voice_mail_uri=*97

[sntp]
sntp_addr=192.168.1.10
timezone=UT::-180:000000:000000

[audio]
dtmf_avt_payload_type=97
vad=1
rlr_handset=10
slr_handset=10
sidetone_handset=2
hearing_aid_enable=1
tone_country=1
dtmf_type=2
dtmf_level=2
dtmf_feedback_enable=1


[appl]
admin_password=123456
time_format=0
supported_language=6

[telnet]
telnet_enable=1
telnet_password=admin



the sipconfig-mac.txt content:
[sip]
user_name=400
authentication_name=400
authentication_password=123456
display_name=USER 400'
proxy_port=5060
registrar_port=5060
local_sip_port=5060