At 03:41 PM 7/31/2008, you wrote:
on 7-31-2008 12:24 PM Tim Utschig spake the following:
On 07/31/08 12:02, Scott Silva wrote:
The other answer is to get ISC dhcpd to honor the broadcast flag,
and broadcast all packets instead of unicasting the answer
packets. That I can't find a setting for.
I have no Vista clients to test with, but have you tried
"always-broadcast on;" ?
From "man dhcpd.conf" on CentOS 5.2:
always-broadcast flag;
The DHCP and BOOTP protocols both require DHCP and BOOTP clients
to set the broadcast bit in the flags field of the BOOTP
message header. Unfortunately, some DHCP and BOOTP clients do
not do this, and therefore may not receive responses from the
DHCP server. The DHCP server can be made to always broadcast
its responses to clients by setting this flag to 'on' for the
relevant scope; relevant scopes would be inside a conditional
statement, as a parameter for a class, or as a parameter for a
host declaration. To avoid creating excess broadcast traffic
on your network, we recommend that you restrict the use of this
option to as few clients as possible. For example, the
Microsoft DHCP client is known not to have this problem, as are
the OpenTransport and ISC DHCP clients.
SO... I have to flood my network with broadcast traffic or pay the
microsoft extortion... Bill strikes again!
Thanks for that. I had been reading the dhcp man page (I should say
book! What a long one.) I guess I missed that. I'll have to set any
Vista clients to named hosts so I can limit the traffic.
According to that man page, ISC implies that Vista is broken, and
Microsoft implies that ISC is broken. Were playing the blame game again!
How fun! ;-P
And I thought it was going to get boring...
Nice. Microsoft is regressing to its good old formula of flooding the
LAN with lots of 'me too' and 'I am here' packets. Way to improve efficiency!
Yep. Think I'll stick with XP SP2 where and when I can, until I am
forced to move on.
Cheers!
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