Joe, > The FBSD Version 4.5 built in DHCP client
FYI, that's ISC's DHCP client. > would display the DHCP ip address, mask, broadcast ip address, dns ip > address it got during the boot startup process. The new FBSD 4.6 version > just displays the following message 'Doing initial network setup: > Hostname' Note that the hostname is not directly related to networking, it's just the name you give the system. Presuming you have DHCP correctly configured, you should see syslog messages (at user.notice) from dhclient like this: dhclient: New Network Number: 68.100.144.0 dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 68.100.151.255 dhclient: New IP Address (dc0): 68.100.145.31 dhclient: New Subnet Mask (dc0): 255.255.248.0 dhclient: New Broadcast Address (dc0): 68.100.151.255 dhclient: New Routers: 68.100.144.1 Restart dhclient to see this. How are you logging user.notice messages? Are you logging console facility messages? Do you have ifconfig_$if="DHCP" in your rc.conf? -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
