XP clients sometimes ignore DHCPOFFERs

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

--On 16. März 2006 12:51:37 -0500 Jeff Wieland <wieland at purdue.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I don't believe that it will affect the problem I have been 
describing, but this is nice to have anyway.

Greetings, Sebastian Hagedorn
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