DHCP is comming to town... so as an experiment I setup a clean
1.4/sparc box (correctly I hope :-).

I enabled dhclient in rc.conf and created a dhclient.conf that
contained a static lease for the existing setup:

vis:

interface "le0" {
        send host-name "hobbit";
        send dhcp-client-identifier 08:00:20:10:1d:55;
        send dhcp-lease-time 3600;
#       prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
        request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
                domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
        require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
           script "/etc/dhclient-script";
           media "media 10baseT/UTP", "media 10base2/BNC";
}

lease {
  interface "le0";
  fixed-address 144.136.188.252;
  medium "media 10baseT/UTP";
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.192;
  option routers 144.136.188.193;
  option domain-name-servers 144.136.201.10,144.132.81.10;
  option domain-name "cdn.telstra.com.au";
  option broadcast-address 144.136.188.255;
  option dhcp-server-identifier 144.135.128.15;
}

and when I reboot (after tossing the old mygate and ifconfig.le0
stuff) I get:

Listening on BPF/le0/08:00:20:10:1d:55
Sending on   BPF/le0/08:00:20:10:1d:55
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Trying medium "media 10baseT/UTP" 1
ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured
DHCPDISCOVER on le0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
can't connect to sysconf socket: No such file or directory
DHCPOFFER from 172.242.145.1
DHCPREQUEST on le0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 172.242.145.1
New Network Number: 172.242.145.0
New Broadcast Address: 255.255.255.255
ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured
bound to 172.242.145.57 -- renewal in 1800 seconds.

and as ifconfig shows we are not well.

root:50# ifconfig -a
le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:20:10:1d:55
        media: Ethernet 10base5
        status: active
        inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
...

# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface
default            link#1             UC          0        0      -  le0 =>
default            172.242.145.1      UGS         0        0      -  le0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2       24      -  lo0
172.242.145.57     127.0.0.1          UGHS        0        0      -  lo0

# ping 172.242.145.1
PING 172.242.145.1 (172.242.145.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
^C
----172.242.145.1 PING Statistics----
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

This is running on the 1.4 GENERIC_SCSI3 kernel.

Have I missed something?

--sjg