On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:50:12PM -0500, Matthew Grant wrote:
> hey folks
> 
> I have this annoying thing with my
> Netbsd-i386 box's.
> my Netbsd-sparc seems to be unaffected. When
> I boot and get to logon I get "network is
> down" errors. Yet I can ping other host and
> get on the net and so on. 
> 
> was just wondering if there is a option I
> have to unset
> or whatever.

Add to /etc/rc.conf:
dhclient_flags="-q xyz0"

Where xyz0 is the interface you are using.  E.g. fxp0 or sip0 or similar.
What is happening is that dhclient is finding other broadcast capable
devices in your kernel and is trying to dhcp on all of them.  So it is
working fine on your normal ethernet, but is complaining that 'strip0'
and friends are down.

-Andrew