From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 19:00:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CADA106566B for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E3F8FC0C for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:00:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5IJ0dQX043299; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:00:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n5IJ0dY4043296; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:00:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:00:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Tim Judd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200906180941.04597.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The short and curlies of vista networking X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:00:49 -0000 > 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.