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From: Xu Qiang <Qiang.Xu@fujixerox.com>
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Subject: RE: DNS and Gateway in FreeBSD?
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Lowell wrote:
> Yes, you do.  A dhcp client is part of the base system.

But I assigned my machine a static ip address and netmask, and they never c=
hanged. I don't know how the machine detect the gateway ip address and DNS =
server ip address which i never assigned to it. :(


Regards,
Xu Qiang