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Subject: ifconfig dc0 DCHP gets error
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What is the syntax of the ifconfig command to enable DHCP?

Ifconfig dc0 DHCP gives error message  'DHCP bad value'

I can get it to work from within rc.conf, but not from command line.
What an I doing wrong?