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Subject: Re: ifconfig dc0 DCHP gets error
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote:

> 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?

on the command line, you should be doing 'dhclient intX' where intX is
your interface.

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