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FAQ and example config additions for Windows 7 WPAD problem.

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@@ -467,8 +467,18 @@ A: The DHCP client on windows Vista (and possibly later versions)
work).
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"