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RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

 >when i ping i get no route to host

OK...

 >the ifconfig does not give me any ipadresses that is what puzzles me.

Me too. Until you have an interface address, the firewall is surely 
irrelevant.

I gather you're using dhcp.

 >The rc.conf stuff is ok too,

So what dmesg output is generated when the dhcp client invoked by your 
entry in rc.conf tries to obtain a lease at boot time?

PWR.