Subject: Re: NIC assistance
To: Roger Fischer <r@aileron.org>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/12/2003 00:08:42
    Date:        Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:36:01 -0700
    From:        Roger Fischer <r@aileron.org>
    Message-ID:  <a06001802bbabf525d711@[192.168.0.4]>

  | At 10:19 PM +0200 10/9/03, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
  | >On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:51:02PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
  | >>  On Wed, 08 Oct 2003, Alden Louis-Pierre <alden.pierre@verizon.net> wrote
  | >Shouldn't be needed, as he already has
  | >dhclient=YES
  | >in /etc/rc.conf.

Actually, I thought he said that he had

dhclient = yes

(maybe YES, but the spaces were there...), which would have
the effect of attempting to run dhclient (perhaps many times) on
the "=" and "yes" interfaces, which isn't likely to work.

  | Do you even need an /etc/ifconfig.if# file if the interface is 
  | configured by dhclient?

No.

kre