Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ricardo Jesus
<ricardo.meb.jesus at gmail.com>wrote:

> manish jain wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000).
>>
>> I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP
>> server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in
>> FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is willing to help
>> only for Windows. And indeed my Windows 2000 is sailing the internet
>> smoothly enough, so I can't really blame him.
>>
>> I am using a Realtek 8139D NIC on an x86 system. When I ask sysinstall to
>> configure rl0, it asks me whether I want to use DHCP. When I say yes, it
>> still gives me the same form to fill out as it does for static IP addresses.
>> I don't have any idea how to fill out this form when DHCP is being used.
>>
>> Please note that on Windows, the following are enabled :
>> 1) Obtain an IP address automatically
>> 2) Obtain DNS server address automatically
>>
>> Everything else (IP address/Default dateway/etc) is greyed out. Can anyone
>> please tell me how to get my FreeBSD system up on DHCP. The only other piece
>> of information I can provide is the hostname I have been using so far :
>> unxfbsdi.freebsd.localdomain
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Regards
>> Manish Jain
>> invalid.pointer at gmail.com
>>
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>>  I think Realtek 8139D fall into re(4) driver, but do take a look at dmesg
> | less to confirm this.
>
> To display the current configuration for the network interfaces on your
> system run:
> % ifconfig
>
> You need to edit rc.conf and add the following to have the network card
> configured at boot time:
> ifconfig_re0="DHCP"
>
> To configure the card from the command line simply run:
> # ifconfig re0 dhcp


I would do:

dhclient re0

Is the behaviour the same?


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