From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 20:29:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4452037B417 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (unknown [209.105.45.51]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC9C1BD for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:29:14 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A23D1385E; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:29:20 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Jeff Williams Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, michaele@mxim.com Subject: Re: Engabling the DHCP client. Message-ID: <20011201222920.I493@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <3C09A523.BE939A61@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C09A523.BE939A61@home.com>; from macclad@home.com on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:50:59PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:50:59PM -0800, Jeff Williams wrote: > Um, the DCHP man page on the web is fine, except I'm confused about two > things: > 1: How to you EXECUTE dhcpclient? Where do I put the issuance of the > execution command? man dhclient > 2: How or where do I locate the dhclient.conf default file? It is NOT > currently located in > my /etc directory now, and I have no clue as to where to find it.... > man dhclient.conf You might take a look at rc.conf as well. Typically doing something like this is all you need: ifconfig_ed0="DHCP" Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message