I connect to the internet using an ethernet connection supplied by my 
apartment. All the information is configured using DHCP, and therefore I 
have endeavored to set up DHCP on my brand new (first time) install of 
NetBSD 1.5.1. This seemed like it would be easy to do.

At first, I simply ran dhclient from the command line to see if it would 
work and it seemed to do fine. I could ping the outside world. Following 
that, I proceeded to edit the (heretofore nonexistant) /etc/dhclient.conf 
file and the /etc/rc.conf file to enable DHCP at boot. Here is where I am 
stuck. I added the line

dhclient=YES

to my /etc/rc.conf file, and tried to configure the /etc/dhclient.conf file 
as explained on the netbsd.org HOWTO. However, this did not yield any 
results, I encountered a number of errors. I tried many edits to 
/etc/dhclient.conf without knowing entirely what I was doing, and I 
frequently got errors of the type "Expected command at line x" or "expected 
semicolon" (on lines ending with semicolons). I could not figure out exactly 
what problem the script had with my placement of semi-colons. From what I 
could tell, they were correct. After a point, I simply deleted the entire 
contents of the /etc/dhclient.conf file, without deleting the file itself. 
Now, upon boot, I find myself able at least to ping other machines in the 
apartment, though attempts to ping www.yahoo.com were unsuccessful, meaning 
either that I cannot ping the outside world (no gateway), or I cannot 
resolve domain names (no DNS). So I was wondering if anyone had some advice 
on how to edit this file to get functional internet. Thanks.



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