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Re: DHCP w/ Win2K server?
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- To: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:49:45 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] DHCP w/ Win2K server?
- References: <20011128163459.A12726@visi.com> <1006987178.10189.0.camel@hermes>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:39:36PM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 15:35, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> > >From the "MS Windows continues to deteriorate" department...
> >
> > I've had a customer complain that eCos DHCP client doesn't get
> > a gateway address when used with a Win2K server (WinNT is OK).
> > I've verified it by capturing network traffic between eCos and
> > our office's Win2K server: no gateway is sent by the DHCP
> > server. (Though BOFH claims it is.)
> >
> > Has anybody else seen this problem?
> >
> > Is there a setting in the Win2K DHCP server that needs to be
> > chanaged? Both the customer and our BOFH claim that their
> > respective DHCP servers are configured to send gateway
> > addresses.
> >
> > Needless to say, it works fine with Linux... ;)
>
> "it" is ambiguous
Sorry about that. The eCos client works fine with a Linux
DHCP server (whatever is shipped with RH 6/7). eCos client
code also works fine with an NT4 server and with a Novell (5.?)
server.
I'm going to try Linux-client and Win2K-server as soon as my
laptop is finished ripping a CD...
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com