I'm currently playing with ISC's DHCPD code. One of the problems that
they've discovered is that the Win95 DHCP client requires that a response
be addressed (I could be fudging the details a bit here, sorry) to the
255.255.255.255 address. The server _code_ can do this, but there's a
problem with BSD sockets (?) that it assumes 4x255 is really the subnet
broadcast address - x.x.x.255 for class Cs, etc.
One way around this is to add a route for the 4x255 host ... but on both
my Slackware Linux (1.2.13 and 1.3.59) and our Alpha OSF/1 boxes (V3.2),
I get error messages on the order of "255.255.255.255: bad value" when I
enter the necessary 'route' parameters.
Anyone know a trick to winkle this into working for the Win95 users??
andrew. (brennan_at_crashprone.hahnemann.edu)
Received on Wed May 22 1996 - 02:41:23 NZST