Wifi @ Nashua Library?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Sep 1 16:09:00 EDT 2009


On 08/26/2009 04:53 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> I've been on public networks before where I can't get a DHCP response, while 
> Windows users don't have a problem.  I've never come up with a thorough 
> explanation and it's rare enough for me that I've never really investigated.

I have a vague recollection of one time having to ask dhcpcd to send a
certain option in the dhcp request to get a server to respond.  It was
basically just mimicking Windows, and nothing important - probably a bug
in the dhcp server (only tested against windows machines, perhaps).

-Bill

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