On 28 Jan 2001, at 9:40, Robert D. Billings wrote:

> The next problem to tackle is why DHCP keeps reporting that the 
> network is down and continually tries to get a lease from the DHCP
> server while the server shows a lease to the NetBSD box and I have
> network access to the box.

Hi,

could you please line out how the network is configured? Does the 
Mac have direct access to the DHCP server or is the Mac conected 
to the NetBSD box and the NetBSD box to the DHCP server? Is the 
DHCP server inside your network or the one of eg. your ISP?

mike