From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 326536 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:19:16 -0400 Message-ID: <44F76E73.1020003@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:19:15 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060701 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0i SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: DHCP Problems References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/31/06 05:00 pm, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote : > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:44:40 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > >> Maybe in Hakan's situation he was dealing with a BOOTP server and not a >> DHCP server? Though even there, one would think that he would at least >> get a local address, and naturally, there were other transient Windows >> clients who/which were able to get (supposed) DHCP information without >> incident. I would have been interested in trying with a Linux client >> which has a more modern dhcpcd implementation than we have. >> > > windows being what it is, it's also possible that some windows dhcp request/parameter that > was not supplied by OS/2's requestor hung or caused a timeout on the server's thread.... > > I've been in a number of hotels the last few months and find that without IE even on > windows it's impossible to get an IP for more than a minute or two, as Firefox on windows > is resistant to the redirect to the (I guess) radius server the router is trying to force > me to. Wayport is particularly good at knocking you off-line without the agreement within > a few minutes, others may allow you on, once the redirected page is presented without the > 'agreement' being actually clicked. > > > Stan, what you describe is something related to Wayport's captive portal and not necessarily DHCP. I believe that Hakan was specifically describing a DHCP issue. Hakan: what is your timeout setting in dhcpcd.cfg? Even if it is zero, the client should try to get an address in the background. You didn't notice the Windows clients suffering anything along the lines of a long wait? -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------