This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three 5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users.
On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address. But I know the cable is good and the DHCP server is working, because I booted the box in question into Windows and it grabbed an IP just fine. So where do I start on diagnosing what's up with this installation?
Try run dhclient with option "-d" to keep it in the foreground and see what errors appear.
Do you have dhclient_enable="YES" in your rc.conf? If a dhclient is already running starting a new one has the special feature that the existing stops working. The new one sets ip to 0.0.0.0, then fails startup and exits.
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