Thanks Lowell; but a solution be to change something in /etc/rc.conf instead?
Pete pointed me toward /etc/rc.conf, which contains the following line:
ifconfig_dc0="DHCP"
Seeing this made me remember something: someone once told me that commenting this line
out would keep DHCP from running. While that is somewhat true, it also killed my
whole NIC interface! So the solution must be not to comment it out, but to change the
variable value "DHCP" to something else. I've been searching for proper values but
haven't seen them anywhere yet, but I did see the following in "man rc.conf":
pccard_ifconfig
(str) List of arguments to be passed to ifconfig(8) at boot
time or on insertion of the card (e.g. ``inet 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0'' for a fixed address or ``DHCP'' for a
DHCP client).
...
It is possible to bring up an interface with DHCP by setting
the ifconfig_<interface> variable to ``DHCP''. For instance,
to initialize the ed0 device via DHCP, it is possible to use
something like:
ifconfig_ed0="DHCP"
So the line in my config file matches the man page, but the man page doesn't say what
other variables are available that won't break the interface.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
~John
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John DeStefano writes:
> Is there another file/setting that's being consulted somewhere at boot time? Gary
> mentioned it may be due to a smbd, netbios-ssn, or DCHP setting, but he's unfamiliar
> with those services.
Add some overrides to the dhclient.conf(5) file to put in your
preferred DNS server. I use the "prepend" modifier, but you
might want "supersede" instead.
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