Tim Dickson wrote:
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
I'm wondering if a patch was added to windows update at some point to
fix the problem. Is your Vista totally updated?
I find it really interesting, that your using Microsoft DHCP service.
According to Microsft should be fully compatible with Vista.
I would suggest swapping your switch out, to see if it helps. Cisco or
Linksys seem to be okay.
Adam
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