dhclient: lease renewal woes

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed Aug 29 16:19:00 UTC 2012


Mr Dash Four wrote:

>I dare not try because I will (potentially) be exposing a Windows 
>machine to the outside world. That, I think, isn't such a good idea. 
>I am more comfortable having Linux in between so that I can see what 
>is going on.

It's not as bad as people make out. As long as it's fully patched and 
you have the windows firewall turned on then it should be fine while 
you test.

It's a useful test to see if it's client related or a provider issue 
that affects all clients.

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