--- Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > > > Bradley Alexander wrote: > > > >> I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Pismo) that dual boots > MacOS9 (to watch DVDs) > >> and sid. I have taken it to work a few times, and > find that I cannot get > >> a DHCP address. For some reason (the reason being > that Windoze' DHCP > >> implementation is BROKEN), pump is not able to > get an IP address. I > > > > Considering all the things about MS that _are_ > broken it seems a > > little unfair to blame them for this. pump (from > woody, w/ kernel > > 2.4.16/2.4.17) works fine on my client's Win NT > network. > > Sure, NT is fine, but W2K DHCP is so broken that use > of W2K as a domain > controller used to be *banned* at MIT! With SP2, it > is now merely "not > supported" because it interferes with other DHCP > servers on the network (!). > > http://web.mit.edu/is/help/win2000/nodc.html > > So yes, it is quite fair to blame MS for DHCP > brokenness. > > Zeen,
Also, stay away from pump. I have found it to be a very buggy piece of software. dhcp-client is a much better alternative. Cheers Geoff http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - Vote for your nominees in our online Oscars pool.
