Paul Mansfield wrote: > Tim Nelson wrote: >> I recently ran into an issue where one of our client's laptops would/could >> not get an IP address from one of our boxes running pfSense 1.2-RELEASE. >> Connecting via wireless or wired made no difference and other machines could >> connect just fine without issue. After doing some searching, I've found that >> Vista has some "issues" with DHCP. The full Microsoft Article is here: >> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/EN-US/ >> >> In short, Vista needs to have it's DHCP broadcast flags modified to use DHCP >> on "some routers and some non-Microsoft DHCP servers". I can only assume it >> is a problem with Vista and not the underlying DHCPD daemons as I don't >> believe any other OS's have this problem currently. >> >> Just thought I'd post this to the list as I'm assuming some of you may run >> into the same problem at some point. > > I wish I'd seen this a few days ago as I stumbled into it last night. New laptop, multi-booting linux and vista (the latter kept just in case), booted vista and it wouldn't connect to my ad-hoc network at home "reliably" (i.e. it didn't get a dhcp lease). Had to hard-wire a static IP and it worked just fine, couldn't figure it out, but you solved my puzzle!
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