I have encountered issues like this. It is not related with pfsense. Just another vista bug. Try upgrading to SP 1 and then patch to the latest patches.
-Bill -----Original Message----- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: 9/23/08 12:49 PM 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] **************************************************************************** Checked by MailWasher server (www.Firetrust.com) WARNING. No FirstAlert account found. To reduce spam further activate FirstAlert. This message can be removed by purchasing a FirstAlert Account. **************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
