From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 26 19:50:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FFF14C18 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:50:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA19482; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:54:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:54:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: "John C. Place" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP Renew lease problem (FreeBSD 3.2R client, NT server) In-Reply-To: <19990626214541.A17732@ctcdist.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, John C. Place wrote: > Enter a co-worker that wants to install FreeBSD at the office. So a couple > hours later (we talked a lot) we had an installed box. Now at the office > most of the machines are on dynamic IPs and not wanting to take a chance of > "bumping" into the DHCP server (running on NT) I decided to take a stab at > using dhclient. [...] > So I am at loss what I did/am doing wrong. This will not renew a lease. I can > slay and restart dhclient to fix this but this seems a little shaddy. You probably aren't doing anything wrong at all. The DHCP server in NT is horribly broken by default. Unless your NT system administrator has SP5 (I'm assuming it's an NT 4.0 server) installed, it is broken in many, many documented places (see the MS website). Shoot, its probably still broken even after SP5. You'd do well to convince whoever is in charge of that thing to take the DHCP server off the NT box and put it on a FreeBSD box running ISC's dhcpd. I use it to serve hundreds and hundreds of Windows 9X and NT clients (after first trying with NT4 SP3 quite a while back), and I've never had even the first sign of trouble with it. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message