XP clients sometimes ignore DHCPOFFERs
Sebastian Hagedorn
Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
Fri Mar 24 11:13:46 UTC 2006
--On 21. März 2006 10:56:34 -0500 John Wobus <jw354 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> We made the change (xx.xx.xx.255 broadcast addresses
> to 255.255.255.255 broadcast addresses in the routers)
> a few months ago and it appears to have fixed the problem
> of Windows clients sometimes ignoring DHCPOFFERS.
I can confirm that this works. I wonder if it would suffice *not* to set
the broadcast address on Cisco routers? Our previous policy was to set it
specifically to the actual braodcast address of a subnet ... I just checked
Cisco's documentation:
Default address: 255.255.255.255 (all ones)
So apparently we've been doing it all wrong!
Thanks, Sebastian Hagedorn
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