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.