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by **Stephen Carvill** » Fri, 22 Jan 1999 04:00:00

> We are looking to run a dhcp server on a linux box to server a diverse
> community. I have been told that there is a problem with win95 version a not
> working with the linux dhcp server. Has anyone had some experience with
> this.

AFAIK, the only difficulty with using DCHP (from any non-MS box) and Win95 is
the need to have a static route to 255.255.255.255. On Redhat add the line "any
net 255.255.255.255 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw eth0" to
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes (or use linuxconf to create it) and you should be
OK. This is a _horrible_ protocol violation but it is necessary if you want to
talk to the NT9X client.

--
Stephen Carville
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Civilization, as we know it today, owes it's existence to the engineers. These
are the men who, down the long centuries, have learned to exploit the properties
of matter and the sources of power for the benefit of mankind.
L. Sprague DeCamp

by **Joerg Klaa** » Sat, 23 Jan 1999 04:00:00

We are running DHCP since more than a year now (with the special route entry), and
it always worked without ANY problems. We're using NT, 98 as well as 95 machines...
Joerg

> > We are looking to run a dhcp server on a linux box to server a diverse
> > community. I have been told that there is a problem with win95 version a not
> > working with the linux dhcp server. Has anyone had some experience with
> > this.

> AFAIK, the only difficulty with using DCHP (from any non-MS box) and Win95 is
> the need to have a static route to 255.255.255.255. On Redhat add the line "any
> net 255.255.255.255 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw eth0" to
> /etc/sysconfig/static-routes (or use linuxconf to create it) and you should be
> OK. This is a _horrible_ protocol violation but it is necessary if you want to
> talk to the NT9X client.

> --
> Stephen Carville
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Civilization, as we know it today, owes it's existence to the engineers. These
> are the men who, down the long centuries, have learned to exploit the properties
> of matter and the sources of power for the benefit of mankind.
> L. Sprague DeCamp

by **Bob** » Sat, 30 Jan 1999 04:00:00

I want to log on with linux to GTE ADSL. They vehemently persecute linux
users--you have to lie and say you're running either w95 or w98. They say
w95 works better. They say w98 can't receive all the info, nameservers
I think. I have linux 2.2.0 with dhcpcd 1.3.17-pl2 and I know about the
-h username option. One person in this newsgroup says he runs linux with
dhcp on GTE ADSL, log on fine. That's hopeful, but I'm looking at your
conversation about difference between w95 and linux, and wonderring
if that static route thing is anything for me as a linux client logging on?

One of their bludgeon boys screamed and ranted that only windows95,98
or NT will work. One correspondent here says it's only a policy, not
based on a problem, but that they're rabid about it.

-Bob

> > We are looking to run a dhcp server on a linux box to server a diverse
> > community. I have been told that there is a problem with win95 version a not
> > working with the linux dhcp server. Has anyone had some experience with
> > this.

> AFAIK, the only difficulty with using DCHP (from any non-MS box) and Win95 is
> the need to have a static route to 255.255.255.255. On Redhat add the line "any
> net 255.255.255.255 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw eth0" to
> /etc/sysconfig/static-routes (or use linuxconf to create it) and you should be
> OK. This is a _horrible_ protocol violation but it is necessary if you want to
> talk to the NT9X client.

> --
> Stephen Carville

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