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Dave--
we've been testing a number of thin clients based on Windows CE. Some
vendor's clients work well with DHCP and there was one among those we tested
that was a complete horror story. The short answer then is that the ISC
server can successfully configure Windows CE, though certainly not those of
every vendor.
--Barr
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> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 6:36 PM
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> Subject: Detecting Microsoft / Non-Microsoft clients
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> Looking at 2.0 patch level 18, the software expects a hostname field
> coming
> from the client in order to determine Microsoft / non-Microsoft for null
> termination. Windows CE does not send a hostname (or any other options
> :()
> although it still requires a null terminator.
>
> Another field which a client can send is option 60, the Vendor class
> identifier, which is also a string. Since it may be possible to have a
> Windows client be configured with no TCP/IP hostname (haven't tried), it
> would be nice to add a check for option 60 as well. Of course, the CE
> case
> won't be fixed here, but one can hope :).
>
> Finally having a grouping based upon class identifier would give a non-MAC
> specific way of specifying groups of clients together. By having such a
> grouping, an option in the config file can also be added to force
> Microsoft
> mode, rather than looking for Nulls.
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. Has anyone gotten dhcpd to feed Windows CE clients successfully (or
> does
> anyone have a patch that allows it).
>
> 2. Does anyone have a patch that allows the Vendor class identifier be
> used
> to group clients together?
>
> If not, I may have to do it anyway and make the patch available, but I
> don't
> want to reinvent something already done.
>
> Dave
>
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