ISC DHCP -Vista IP Address Acquiring Issue

Fernando André fernando.andre at tvtel.pt
Wed Oct 8 13:59:59 UTC 2008


Hello,

We have add the trouble you specified a solution we adopted was specify 
a hotfix for Vista. We are on a different environment.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929451

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929547

Hope this is helpfull to you.

Best regards,
Fernando André

kushal Parikh escreveu:
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> Dear All,
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> This is with reference to above mentioned subject.
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> We have an ISC Dhcp server (Version 3) installed at one of our site, 
> used to assign IP Address to users in wireless setup i.e. User get IP 
> from DHCP via wireless Radios. This server was installed approx 1.5 
> yrs back and is working absolutely fine for Windows XP user.
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> But now with use of Windows Vista and increased number of customers 
> for vista, we are facing the issue of dhcp not able to assign the IP 
> to vista users.
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> The system continuously displays acquiring IP message and finally the 
> request is dropped (i.e. the user doesn't connect).
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> Though at times the user does get the IP address through DHCP and he 
> is able to browse as any other OS user. But the chances of these 
> successful connections are approx 5%.
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> This entire setups is for Wireless Network. That is the user trying to 
> get the IP address in a wireless environment through DHCP.
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> Again the same works fine (almost all the time), when we try to get 
> the IP address from DHCP in LAN (weird) environment.
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> That is connecting to the DHCP Server through a Layer 3 switch.
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> We would like to know what could be the cause of this VISTA -- IP 
> acquiring issue.
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> We do have some latency in our wireless network but again it works 
> fine for any other OS than Vista.
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> Requesting Support.
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> Thanks & Regards
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> Kushal Parikh
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-- 
Fernando Ribeiro
Departamento de Internet

Tvtel Comunicações S.A.
http://www.tvtel.pt/

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