work).
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+Q: DHCP doesn't work with windows 7 but everything else is fine.
+
+A: There seems to be a problem if Windows 7 doesn't get a value for
+ DHCP option 252 in DHCP packets it gets from the server. The
+ symtoms have beeen variously reported as continual DHCPINFORM
+ requests in an attempt to get an option-252, or even ignoring DHCP
+ offers completely (and failing to get an IP address) if there is no
+ option-252 supplied. DHCP option 252 is for WPAD, WWW Proxy
+ Auto Detection and if you don't want or need to use that, then
+ simplest fix seems to be to supply an empty option with:
+
+ dhcp-option=252,"\n"
#dhcp-option=45,0.0.0.0 # netbios datagram distribution server
#dhcp-option=46,8 # netbios node type
+# Send an empty WPAD option. This may be REQUIRED to get windows 7 to behave.
+#dhcp-option=252,"\n"
+
# Send RFC-3397 DNS domain search DHCP option. WARNING: Your DHCP client
# probably doesn't support this......
#dhcp-option=option:domain-search,eng.apple.com,marketing.apple.com