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Re: sid and Windows DHCP



Derek Broughton wrote:

Bradley Alexander wrote:

I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Pismo) that dual boots MacOS9 (to watch DVDs)
and sid. I have taken it to work a few times, and find that I cannot get
a DHCP address. For some reason (the reason being that Windoze' DHCP
implementation is BROKEN), pump is not able to get an IP address. I

Considering all the things about MS that _are_ broken it seems a little unfair to blame them for this. pump (from woody, w/ kernel 2.4.16/2.4.17) works fine on my client's Win NT network.

Sure, NT is fine, but W2K DHCP is so broken that use of W2K as a domain controller used to be *banned* at MIT! With SP2, it is now merely "not supported" because it interferes with other DHCP servers on the network (!).

http://web.mit.edu/is/help/win2000/nodc.html

So yes, it is quite fair to blame MS for DHCP brokenness.

Zeen,
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