Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Windows Vista DHCP Problems

I have been having problems recently with DHCP on Windows Vista. It seems that Vista is not able to obtain an ip address through DHCP when changing networks. I noticed that on linux, DHCP worked like a charm on the same machine (did not surprise me :P).

A quick look on the net and I found at that Microsoft brought in a change into the way an ip address was queried for using DHCP. I wonder whether they got to know about such a thing called Backward Compatibility !!

Anyway, have a look at this site and download the useful tool mentioned there to get a quick fix.

http://www.reviewingit.com/index.php/content/view/29/2/

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