On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:58:19PM -0400, Andy Ball wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> It seems that my DHCP confusion is not yet completely
> resolved.  Running dhclient produces a few error messages
> about IPV6 not being enabled, and then I get error messages
> displayed on the console every few seconds...
> 
>   dhclient: send_packet: network is down
> 
> ...I tried running dhclient -p ne0 which may have reduced
> the frequency of these errors a little, but I would like to
> be able to weed them out altogether.

If your 'ne0' is working correctly these errors should not be related
to that interface.  You mean 'dhclient -q ne0' right?

It might be that your 'ne0' is bouncing in and out of the switch or
something.  Look at 'netbsd -in' to see if Ierrs/Oerrs/Colls is increasing.

> Apart from these error messages dhclient seems to be
> working.  It succeeds in getting an IP address and
> apparently DNS addresses too (I can access remote hosts by
> name rather than IP number).

To get /etc/resolv.conf populated add this to your /etc/dhclient.conf:
  request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
        domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
  require subnet-mask, routers, domain-name-servers;

The require is not strictly necessary, but will ensure that you get an
error if you don't get the DNS server information.

> Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

No, other than using a crappy ethernet card. :)

-Andrew