[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?

[Richard Geoffrion]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?


> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> >
> > ok.. MY .02..
> >
> > M$ Wingnuts products ARE in fact much easier to use.  Here's a simple
> > scenario.
>
oops...let me re-phrase that.

M$ Desktop operating systems ARE in fact much easier for the end user to
use.


> You know... hooking up the Windows98SE platform via
> dhcp to the VALinux box that it has no facility for
> picking up the DNS being advertised by the server?
> Linux as a client picks it up just fine.
> Oh well... another mystery... I'd turn on the debug
> messages...ooops, I forgot, it's Windows.
>

BTW, the Win98SE DHCP driver (vdhcp.386) is broken.  Use a Win98FE vdhcp.386
instead.
I've done a packet trace of the communications between a W98SE box and a
Linux DHCP server that was across a router.  I saw where the request was
made and the offer given, but the ACK was never sent by the W98SE client.
Can you say BRo*KeN.

And HEY! I'm all for Linux becoming easier to use and replacing W* at the
desktop.
.06 + .02 = .08