Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 13:51:32 Tim Judd wrote: > Replies inline > > On 6/18/09, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: > >> Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an > >> extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 14:30:21 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > >> A broadcast of 255.255.255.255 is misconfigured (not saying it's not > >> gonna work, I'm saying for your network, it's not configured right). > >> you need broadcast-address 192.168.2.255 >

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Glen Barber wrote: A broadcast of 255.255.255.255 is misconfigured (not saying it's not gonna work, I'm saying for your network, it's not configured right). you need broadcast-address 192.168.2.255 That is not 100% correct. By default, dhclient will send an initial

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Judd
The broadcast definition in his snippet is in his subnet declaration. It is used within the TCP/IP paramaters when it's offering the lease. DHCP protocol is what you're talking about. And the client has 0.0.0.0 and broadcasts 255.255.255.255 to find any dhcp server that might be out there. But m

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Tim Judd wrote: > Replies inline > > On 6/18/09, Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: >>> Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an >>> extremely short delay period to get an IP.  If it doesn't get it >>>

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Judd
Replies inline On 6/18/09, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: >> Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an >> extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it >> within 1 second, it gives up (and maybe tries again). Co

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 10:27:44 Tim Judd wrote: > Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an > extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it > within 1 second, it gives up (and maybe tries again). Common DHCP > servers ping an IP address, wait 1 seco

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 18 June 2009 09:56:29 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: > > Does anyone have a how-to or pitfall summary on how to get a vista > > computer > > to: > > - accept DHCP offers from isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_4 > > - connect to WPA-PSK using *any* sc

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it within 1 second, it gives up (and maybe tries again). Common DHCP servers ping an IP address, wait 1 second for a reply, and if no reply, assumes the IP is availa

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Judd
Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it within 1 second, it gives up (and maybe tries again). Common DHCP servers ping an IP address, wait 1 second for a reply, and if no reply, assumes the IP is availab

Re: The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Mel Flynn wrote: Does anyone have a how-to or pitfall summary on how to get a vista computer to: - accept DHCP offers from isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_4 - connect to WPA-PSK using *any* scheme supported by FreeBSD's hostapd - give debugging information that makes

The short and curlies of vista networking

2009-06-18 Thread Mel Flynn
Does anyone have a how-to or pitfall summary on how to get a vista computer to: - accept DHCP offers from isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_4 - connect to WPA-PSK using *any* scheme supported by FreeBSD's hostapd - give debugging information that makes sense to someone not speaking "if !not_working throw g