dhcpd and Vista

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

David W. Hankins wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:18:12PM +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>> The client issues Discover, the server Offers, and the client says
>> nothing until a new Discover, and so on.
> 
> Sounds like it isn't receiving the server's offer.
The Discover is made with "Broadcast" flag enabled, so the Offer is sent
to broadcast ethernet and ip addresses. For sure it should receive it, I
think.
> 
>> I've seen it working with another DHCP. That DHCP server gives some more
>> fields in the Offer message. Concretely, options 58 and 59
>> (dhcp-rebinding-time and dhcp-renewal-time) and something about NetBios.
>> I've tried enabling those options 58 and 59 in dhcpd.conf, and even
>> though, they are not sent in the Offer packet.
> 
> Because the Vista client doesn't put them on the parameter request
> list.
But the other dhcp server (I don't know what is it) puts them in the Offer.
> 
> You can modify the parameter request list via config syntax if you
> really feel compelled to, but I doubt it will be fruitful.
I may try.
> 
>> in dhcp-options(5) there's written that "those options are not user
>> configurable".
> 
> Since the server plays with expiry times under certain circumstances,
> it's hard to keep the other times within boundaries if they're
> user-configured rather than derived from the lease time.
Aha, ok.
> 
>> Has anybody had success serving a Vista with dhcpd?
> 
> I have.  It just worked on the first try for us, same config as
> the rest of our systems.  There's nothing remarkable about it.
Nice. I don't know what version do we have; I'll check