In message <Pine.BSF.4.30.0105111604130.33037-100000@main.burghcom.com>, "Brian
 A. Seklecki" writes:
>
>Read through: http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/dhcp.html
>
>Then:
>
>$ sudo /etc/rc.d/network stop
>$ sudo /etc/rc.d/network start
>$ sudo /etc/rc.d/dhclient start
>

Also set dhclient=YES in /etc/rc.conf.  If you know your interface name 
(and ifconfig -a is an easier way to get a list of network interfaces 
than dmesg) set

	dhclient_flags=fxp0

or whatever your interface name is.  That will stop dhclient from 
banging on strip0 and all the other non-dhcp-capable Things you have.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb