DHCP client how to make it pose as windows dhcp client

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Sun Apr 27 16:42:16 UTC 2008


Glenn Satchell wrote:

>Can you install a packet sniifer on WIndows, eg Wireshark, and look at
>what gets sent and received in the DHCP packets? Then do the same for
>Linux.

You don't need the packet sniffer on both if you connect the two 
machines to a hub (not a switch) and then the hub to the ISPs 
router/whatever (and of course, configure the Linux box with a dummy 
static address while you use it for sniffing).



More information about the dhcp-users mailing list