No doubts about the dumb part They might have copied the config and then successfully convinced their not so bright bosses that this is a feature not a bug

I am using Fedora core 8 on my machine. I used the dhclient -V option to set the vendor-class-identifier to "MSFT 5.0"
Now the box ia able to aquire an address 123.xxx.xx.xx. When I try loggin in onto the reliancebroadband website using the Mozilla browser i get an Authentication failed message.
Any inclinations as to why ?

Also,

I was able to enable telnet on the WGR614 v7 router. I went through most of the commands related to dhcp but was unable to find a way to change the vendor-class-ID to the windows one.
Any idea if this can be done ? if yes how ?

Got the linux box working. created the dhclient.conf file as described by Cruise and rebooted the system.
It did the trick
Thanks Cruise.

I tried vendor class id in dhclient and no luck.
pk_rulz let me know if you have any progress. I am using debian etch and dhcp3.
Cruise I have attached my wireshark screenshot. Let me know if I am doing something wrong.

And reliance guys if you are ever reading this .. please spare us the agony and update that config file!

Thanks.

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To add to it the highlighted part is vendor class id MSFT 5.0

Hi, anybody who has flashed their router using DD-WRT; have you tried going to Administration --> Services and putting in MSFT 5.0 for the vendor class? I think this should solve the problem.

Pk_rulz: Thanks! It's a baby boy.. Really don't have time to try anything now-a-days. In fact Airtel laid cable to my street and I am just waiting for my good old Airtel connection to disconnect Reliance. Reliance folks are becoming worse. They refuse to give waiver since I didn't call and file a new complaint everyday for the duration I wanted waiver. They have an automatic complaint closure mechanism whereby they don't check with the customer before colsing and they closed my 20+ complaints that way :-(

Hopper: Thanks for trying this. At least one more person confirmed that it works.

nascentmind: Can you pl. send a bigger JPG? I am unable to read it.

Hi Guys sorry for the late reply ... was a bit busi ...

for jesusservant I did reimage my Linksys WRT54G router with ddwrt and add MSFT 5.0 but did not help inspite of doing MAC clone


For Ubuntu VendorClass ID cant be set on the command line in dhcpcd. However I did add that in config file and did not get an error. Unfortunately I did not get an IP either. So nascent no progress on that front either ...

and hopper what did u actually add to ur config file ...

And cruise plz post ur config file contents .... by the way even if u leave Rel .. kip in touch ... feels good 2 b surrounded by similiar kind of guys

Cheers
PK

By the way cruise started the post by saying he does not have kids yet .... so even while the post is still active he is a proud papa ... Give him a big hand

heyy finally done it ... got an IP on Linux .... its working ... ho ho