Author: Tony Whitmore Date: To: hampshire Subject: [Hampshire] dhcp3-relay and Windows 2003 DHCP server with Windows
XP clients
Hi,
I'm trying to use dhcp3-relay in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to relay requests from
client system to our Windows 2003 DHCP Server. (Yes, I know, I know.) The
relay works fine for Linux clients, but not so well for our Windows XP
clients. Unfortunately there are many more of the latter than the former!
The relay passes the request to the DHCP server, which registers it,
assigns an IP address and passes the response back to the relay. The relay
in turn passes the response back to the client. At this point the Linux
clients accept the IP address and all is good. The Windows XP clients seem
to ignore the response and just send out more requests.
I have tried adding the "-a" option to the DHCP relay configuration, which
is supposed to pass more information between the client and the DHCP
server, but this didn't make any difference. Has anyone come across
anything like this? If so, how did you fix it? ;)
