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[Glenn Satchell]

>At 17:12 -0700 3/4/06, Ross Boylan wrote:

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Discussing release on shutdown for Windows clients ...

>> > That is up to the client. Mac OS X clients do that, they explicitly
>>> release their lease before shutting down, most clients don't. There
>>
>>Is this configurable with the dchp3 client?

Yes, this is possible. Search the mailing list archives, it has been
mentioned a couple of times. There is even a Microsoft KB article that
mentions it.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=dhcp-server&m=111988828207994&w=2

#  Config the MS specific extensions, see:
#  Microsoft Knowledge Base Article #313314
#  MS lies it's not 8 bit ints, it's 32.
#
option space windoze;
option windoze.nbt      code 1 = unsigned integer 32;
option windoze.release  code 2 = unsigned integer 32;
#option windoze.metric  code 3 = unsigned integer 32;
#
if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 8) = "MSFT 5.0" {
         # 2 = disable NetBIOS over TCP
         option windoze.nbt 2;
         # 1 = send DHCPRELEASE on shutdown
         option windoze.release 1;
         # default route cost metric
         #option windoze.metric 1;
         vendor-option-space windoze;
}

regards,
-glenn