Hi

Create /etc/ifconfig.xi0 and add line 'up'

/etc/rc.conf
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dhclient=YES
dhclient_flags="-q xi0"
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It should work simple like that or sometimes it depends on your ISP,
man dhclient.conf

Greetings

Tsiteerimine Philip Christian <philipchristian2003@yahoo.co.uk>:

> I am running NetBSD 1.6 i386 on a laptop
> it has a Xircom creditcard 10/100 + 56k
> 
> When the machine boots it detects the card as a xircom
> realport which isn't quite right (I thought that
> realport was a different product to the creditcard),
> however I don't think that this is the problem as I
> can manually ifconfig an IP address into the PC and
> get the IP stack working that way.
> 
> I have an empty /etc/dhclient.conf and in /etc/rc.conf
> I put
> 
>    dhclient=YES
>    dhclient_flags="xi0"
> 
> I have also tried putting stuff in /etc/dhclient in
> line with the DHCP howto but the result is always the
> same.
> 
> upon boot I see this appear multiple times
> 
>    DHCPREQUEST on xi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval n (n varies)
>    xi0: device timeout
> 
> Also, if I get the IP stack working (manually) and
> then enter "dhclient" command then I get
> 
>    localhost# dhclient xi0
>    Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0rc10
>    Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
>    All rights reserved.
>    For info, please visit
> http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>    
>    Listening on BPF/xi0/00:80:c7:d8:02:6b
>    Sending on   BPF/xi0/00:80:c7:d8:02:6b
>    Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use
>    Please make sure there is no other dhcp server
>    running and that there's no entry for dhcp or
>    bootp in /etc/inetd.conf.   Also make sure you
>    are not running HP JetAdmin software, which
>    includes a bootp server.
> 
> I also tried bringing the interface down then up
> before running dhclient, same result.
> 
> Can anyone help ?
> 
> By the way I'm fairly new to Unix and NetBSD...
> 
> Thanks, Philip
> 
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