Wifi @ Nashua Library?
VirginSnow at vfemail.net
VirginSnow at vfemail.net
Wed Sep 2 09:25:56 EDT 2009
Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:
> 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).
I also have vague recollection of such. I believe passing the -I
option to the dhcp client was the workaround.
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