On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Jim Pingle <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Buechler wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Curtis LaMasters >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've searched around and read about others with this issue. Basically >>> I have 5 different Vista laptops that cannot get a DHCP address unless >>> I modify the registry and disable a broadcast setting. Does anybody >>> have a solution to this that would prevent me from having to touch >>> each workstation? >> >> If you can find a solution for ISC dhcpd we'd implement it. I'm not >> sure exactly how that ends up set on some Vista systems but not >> others. > > My repair bench segment is also behind pfSense, and it has seen hundreds > of different machines of all makes and models, many of them using Vista, > and I've not had one yet that couldn't pull an IP address from DHCP on > pfSense. It's always Just Worked(tm) > > Could this be induced by the switch, perhaps? >
It's the DHCP broadcast flag that causes problems. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233 I'm not sure why it's inconsistent. I suspect some PC manufacturers probably changed that default to avoid support headaches. Windows 7 switched it back to "off" by default so obviously MS realized what a wreck that one was in Vista (one of a long list). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
