Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:00:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The short and curlies of vista networking Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906182059290.43282@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90906181127l7d38f6e0k19b76b5def7de98e@mail.gmail.com> References: <200906180941.04597.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <C152DD00-F39E-4DB3-9E0F-E9D010F273B0@mac.com> <ade45ae90906181127l7d38f6e0k19b76b5def7de98e@mail.gmail.com>
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> Long ago in 2007, I saw a M$ article that describes that Vista has an > extremely short delay period to get an IP. If it doesn't get it > within 1 second, it gives up (and maybe tries again). Common DHCP > servers ping an IP address, wait 1 second for a reply, and if no > reply, assumes the IP is available and leases it to the booting > computer. 1 second is a lot of time. in my network there are lots of windoze vista users and they get IP by dhcpd without problems. delays in LAN are within 10ms range even with a lot of switches.
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