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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:21:52 +0200
From: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com>
To: Antoine Solomon <asolomon15@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: help setting up dhcp client
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:57:00 -0500, Antoine Solomon
<asolomon15@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> My cable provider just changed my ip address and for some reason my
> dhcp client is unable to pick that ip address up or netmask up.   I
> tried using ifconfig inet "my ipaddress" netmask "255.255.255.0" but
> no luck.    I also tried oneof my windows systems and it seemed to
> pick it up fine.   Can anyone help?
> 
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Try this

# dhclient <interfacename>

you can also add it to /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_<interfacename>="DHCP"

-- 
Kind regards
Abu Khaled