on 7-31-2008 1:30 PM Glenn spake the following: > At 03:41 PM 7/31/2008, you wrote: >> on 7-31-2008 12:24 PM Tim Utschig spake the following: >>> On 07/31/08 12:02, Scott Silva wrote: >>>> The other answer is to get ISC dhcpd to honor the broadcast flag, >>>> and broadcast all packets instead of unicasting the answer packets. >>>> That I can't find a setting for. >>> I have no Vista clients to test with, but have you tried >>> "always-broadcast on;" ? >>> From "man dhcpd.conf" on CentOS 5.2: >>> always-broadcast flag; >>> The DHCP and BOOTP protocols both require DHCP and BOOTP clients >>> to set the broadcast bit in the flags field of the BOOTP >>> message header. Unfortunately, some DHCP and BOOTP clients do >>> not do this, and therefore may not receive responses from the >>> DHCP server. The DHCP server can be made to always broadcast >>> its responses to clients by setting this flag to 'on' for the >>> relevant scope; relevant scopes would be inside a conditional >>> statement, as a parameter for a class, or as a parameter for a >>> host declaration. To avoid creating excess broadcast traffic >>> on your network, we recommend that you restrict the use of this >>> option to as few clients as possible. For example, the >>> Microsoft DHCP client is known not to have this problem, as are >>> the OpenTransport and ISC DHCP clients. >> SO... I have to flood my network with broadcast traffic or pay the >> microsoft extortion... Bill strikes again! >> >> Thanks for that. I had been reading the dhcp man page (I should say >> book! What a long one.) I guess I missed that. I'll have to set any >> Vista clients to named hosts so I can limit the traffic. >> >> According to that man page, ISC implies that Vista is broken, and >> Microsoft implies that ISC is broken. Were playing the blame game again! >> >> How fun! ;-P >> >> And I thought it was going to get boring... > > Nice. Microsoft is regressing to its good old formula of flooding the > LAN with lots of 'me too' and 'I am here' packets. Way to improve > efficiency! > > Yep. Think I'll stick with XP SP2 where and when I can, until I am > forced to move on. > > Cheers! I found a tool on the net to at least make it easier to change the Vista behavior. Will have to test it tom. and post a link if anyone wants it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080731/171458ba/attachment-0005.sig>