> Actually, as long as the interface is up, you can sniff traffic even if > it does not have an IP address. Emerge wireshark (somehow...), do (as > root) an "ip link set eth0 up" (or "ifconfig eth0 up") and run > wireshark. Start capturing packets, run dhcpcd from the command line (or > whatever DHCP client you use), and see what goes on the wire. You should > see DHCP discovery/offer/request messages, or maybe not all of them if > things are not working correctly. For each DHCP packet, look at the DHCP > payload details from wireshark (you can save the capture for later > viewing too). > > Then, start windows, install wireshark for windows, and do the same. To > force a DHCP negotiation in windows, open a command prompt and issue > an "ipconfig /release" followed by an "ipconfig /renew" (IIRC). Look at > the traffic captured after the /renew command, and look for obvious or > blatant differences between windows and linux in DHCP packets of the > same kind.
Thanks for the info. I'll try that. Also, I just found by googling that there is dhcp client called net-misc/pump which have --win-client-ident option. I'll try that too. Regards, Marko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
