On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:36 +0000, John Carr wrote: > > I wasn't trying to discredit your findings, nor deny that you got a > > DHCPACK, rather, i was suggesting that zero-conf or local-link > > mechanisms might be the ones simulating the dhcp-server, on further > > reading of the RFC however, that seems unlikely. > > I just wanted to be sure of what was happening, and I was trying to > forcefully get an explanation from you. You said maybe and guess a few > times, I just wanted to be able to categorically say whether the > DHCPACK was coming from the device or some software on my PC.
No force needed ;) The DHCPACK is definatly coming from the device unless magical elves are living in your system ;) What i'm speculating about is *why* it does that, i'm trying to figure out why there would be dhcp functionality in the device in the first place. > I've lost track of what we were saying :-) What do we think is > happening here? A (limited) DHCP 'server', perhaps returning a hard > coded value from the devices registry (allowing windows to poke the > device to another IP as needed)? Any way to trace what happens on Windows when you hook it up? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
