Vista doesn't ack dhcp offer

Doug Tucker tuckerd at engr.smu.edu
Thu Sep 20 18:46:24 UTC 2007


Gents!  No, no, I didn't just go away :).  Here is the requested clients
sniff, sorry it took so long to get it.  Long story, and I did have to
wire connect directly to the vlan in question to even perform a sniff,
but it's done.  Please see it here:


http://engr.smu.edu/~tuckerd/client_dump.txt

Thanks to everyone!!

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 13:48 -0700, Matt Cowger wrote:
> Do you have an equivalent sniff for the client side?  It might be
> useful.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Doug Tucker
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:41 PM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Vista doesn't ack dhcp offer
> 
> Well, yes, we are running iptables on the box as well...we use the nocat
> package for redirecting the wireless clients to an auth system.  I don't
> see anything unusual happen during these requests in the tables output
> though fwiw, but, it's possible I guess to be the problem...but even
> then, wouldn't we see the attempt in the dump?  It literally looks like
> after the offer, it's dropped on the client side.  Doesn't look like the
> client ever comes back?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:55 -0700, David W. Hankins wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:40:50PM -0500, Doug Tucker wrote:
> > > http://engr.smu.edu/~tuckerd/dump.txt
> > 
> > These offers look correct to me, and what any client that sets the
> > broadcast bit should need and expect.
> > 
> > Are you using any kind of l2 security technology, to limit address
> > spoofing and so forth?  These sometimes trigger false positives and
> > drop the server or client packets.
> > 
> > -- 
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> 
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