On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> wrote: > Chris Buechler wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Curtis LaMasters >> <curtislamast...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I've searched around and read about others with this issue. Basically >>> I have 5 different Vista laptops that cannot get a DHCP address unless >>> I modify the registry and disable a broadcast setting. Does anybody >>> have a solution to this that would prevent me from having to touch >>> each workstation? >> >> If you can find a solution for ISC dhcpd we'd implement it. I'm not >> sure exactly how that ends up set on some Vista systems but not >> others. > > My repair bench segment is also behind pfSense, and it has seen hundreds > of different machines of all makes and models, many of them using Vista, > and I've not had one yet that couldn't pull an IP address from DHCP on > pfSense. It's always Just Worked(tm) > > Could this be induced by the switch, perhaps? >
I've had it happen first hand... it's a pain in the *ss!!! Sometimes an elevated CMD prompt - ipconfig /release /renew works But I'd say it's about an 45% success rate. Next step is to disable/renew the adapter - that brings it to about a 65% success rate. This is after following the broadcast regedits - turning off IP6, etc on this machine btw. The good news is that it only happens about once a month, but when it does - man it's annoying. I do run procurve switches on my network - by dhcp server is a windows 2003 server. (pfSense being the gateway though) If anyone else finds a permanent solution - shout it out - because I've yet to find one. (My only "permanent" solution so far - was to upgrade to the RTM of win7) -Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
