re: Not receiving broadcast packets.
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 9:58 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1636 messages posted)
appleoddity,
If you are running Win98FE you may need to upgrade to 98SE. If you already have SE
then I have no ideas. I have found that support for 98FE is minimal to non-existant
on some Web Sites.
Worth a try & not too expensive these days.
BW
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On Friday, August 29, 2008 at 9:42 am, appleoddity wrote:
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>I've got this stupid Windows 98 machine with a really difficult problem.
>
>It will not receive an IP address via DHCP. I have narrowed it down with network
>sniffers to the fact that it will not "see" the DHCP reply which is sent via a broadcast.
> It sends the request and can not see the reply.
>
>If I turn on promiscuous mode on the network adapter with tcpdump, then suddenly
>it is able to see the broadcast, and will receive the IP address immediately.
>
>I've completey reformatted and reinstalled Win98, and I have replaced the network
>adapter. This doesn't make any sense to me.
>
>Its a tough one, but I was hoping someone might know what it is about.
>
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