[geeks] DHCP silliness

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> windoes box off all at once.  But when I turn off the DHCPenabled flag in the
> registry (the flag that says whether ICS will act as DHCP or not), it stops
> doing the NAT work, even though the new DHCP server definately is setting all 
> the settings correctly (IE, DNS and gateway set to win98 box.
> 
> Anyway, I guess I just have to hope that the NetBSD machine is the faster 
> responder, or things might get ugly.  One of the problems with ICS is that it
> appears that it won't let you designate IPs not to use (say because the machine
> doesn't know how to act as a DHCP client).

This just proves to me that Windows is truly a piece of shit.  I think I
am glad that I only deal with it on an occasional basis.

-Pete