XP clients sometimes ignore DHCPOFFERs

[Jeff Wieland]

I'm wondering is this relates to the release-on-shutdown option, option
code 2?  We implement it like:

option space MSFT;
option MSFT.release-on-shutdown code 2 = unsigned integer 32;

class "win2k-clients" {
     match if option vendor-class-identifier = "MSFT 5.0";
     vendor-option-space MSFT;
     option MSFT.release-on-shutdown 1;
}

This makes XP & 2K clients release their IP addresses on shutdown.

David W. Hankins wrote:
> The technote quoted says it only happens on "non microsoft" DHCP servers.
> 
> I wonder what MS's server is doing to get its clients out of this loop.
> 
> This is all-hands week at ISC.  Because of that I'm fairly useless.
> IETF is next week.
> 
> I won't have a chance to look in our lab for a few weeks at the earliest.
> 
> 
> Someone should be able to find out by getting a client into this state (it
> sounds like you need to give it a really long lease) and then attach it to
> a network where someone enabled "share network" on a regular Windows XP
> box.
> 
> A pcap of that would save me a lot of effort.
> 


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