This is an issue that I honestly have never seen between my firewall and Vista. Is this something that was potentially fixed with a Windows update or is handled differently in 1.2.1?
-Sean > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:49:13 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Vista's DHCP Issues > > I've had users complain about this, once i show them XP works fine, I > tell them to contact Microsoft. > > I haven't had any complaints(That I know of) since I started using > pfSense, but it was obvious with other Firewall vendors. > > Adam > > 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. > > > > Tim Nelson > > Systems/Network Engineer > > Rockbochs Inc. > > (218)727-4332 x105 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
