Vista doesn't ack dhcp offer

[Simon Hobson]

Doug Tucker wrote:
>Sorry, after spending a week on that I had to catch up on some stuff.
>Here are the filters for the 128 subnet in question on the gateway
>router.

<snip>

>They are exactly the same now, as the day things were working for
>unicast and not working for broadcast for dns, with the only acception
>being we added the ONE filter for dhcp128, which allowed the broadcast
>to work as well.  To recap, without this filter in allowing broadcast
>though, the clients not setting the broadcast bit were still working
>fine.

Which interface are these rules applied to ? Which direction ? Or 
does this device apply rules 'globally' ?

I can only see the one rule for DHCP - the one you've added, so 
depending on where this rule is applied then it could be that "I 
can't see how DHCP ever worked" !