In message <200107301858.OAA02006@grex.cyberspace.org>, Andy Ball writes:
>
>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.
>
>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).
>
>Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Do you have other interfaces defined?  I think I've seen dhclient mutter
about such things in the past, before I removed them from my kernel.

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