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Subject: Re: ifconfig dc0 DCHP gets error
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On Thursday 08 January 2004 12:43 pm, fbsd_user wrote:
> 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?

Type this:

# killall dhclient; dhclient dc0

HTH
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