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Date:      Sun, 24 Jan 1999 12:49:37 -0600
From:      "Dan Dockery" <danarchy@endeneu.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DHCP client
Message-ID:  <36ab68ae36ac16cd@mail0.mailsender.net> (added by mail0.mailsender.net)

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>My ISP, @Home, tells me I should be running a DHCP client in order to
>have a connection.
>Card is D-Link 528CT (PCI), Motorolla WebSurfer cable modem, FreeBSD 3.0
>installed.
>How do go about installing, configuring and running a DHCP client?

Unless I'm mistaken (my FreeBSD box is at work and until the WAN is up, I
don't have access), dhclient is included with a standard distribution. 
If not, you need to get a copy of it.  Be sure to read the manpages
before you use it, though.  It will overwrite several files.

-Dan

"Come give anyone of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the controls and we -- yes, I assure you -- we would immediately beg to be under control again."
  -Dostoevsky "Notes from Underground"



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