On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >
This should be fixable with the always-broadcast dhcpd option. I opened a feature request. http://cvstrac.pfsense.org/tktview?tn=1814 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
