Anyway, IMHO I Think AutoIP should be part of dhclient since, normaly,
you would only require it if there is no dhcp server running (or being
down).
Try contacting ISC dhclient developers or maling lists because this
problem is not NetBSD specific.

-- Rui Paulo

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