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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