On Jan 16, 2004, at 1:05 AM, Jonathan Neill wrote:

> I had earlier sent an email to netbsd-help@netbsd.org stating that 
> dhclient
> was not functioning properly. In actuality, it seems to be behaving 
> itself
> (after some investigation into the problem and a minor tweak); it 
> configures
> the interface properly and does actually obtain a lease (I checked in 
> the
> router's client table, it shows up). I have the route setup properly (I
> think) also:
>
> route add default 192.168.1.1
>
> and the interface is basically
>
> ifconfig sip0 192.168.1.101 netmask 192.168.1.255

Maybe this was a typo, but the netmask should be 255.255.255.0; the 
broadcast is 192.168.1.255. If you are using the broadcast as the 
netmask, that would easily explain the routing problem.

To fix this, try:

ifconfig sip0 192.168.1.101 netmask 255.255.255.0

-- Erik