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>Number:         15980
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       update of rc.conf.5 man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan  8 01:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

3.4-STABLE CVSup'ed as of Sat Jan  8 02:14:48 MST 2000

>Description:

Since DHCP was brought into the tree, rc.network was capable of launching
DHCP via

  ${dhcp_program} ${dhcp_flags} ${ifn}

for a given network $ifn.

To trigger this, you set the rc.conf variable

  ifconfig_<ifn>

to DHCP like so:

  ifconfig_<ifn>="DHCP"

But this is not documented in the man page for rc.conf. One will only find it
by grepping rc.network.

>How-To-Repeat:

  n/a

>Fix:
	
Apply the following patch to rc.conf.5

--- /usr/src/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	Thu Dec  2 21:37:23 1999
+++ rc.conf.5	Sat Jan  8 02:09:46 2000
@@ -282,6 +282,15 @@
 .Ed
 Then note that alias4 would \fBnot\fR be added since the search would
 stop with the missing alias3 entry.
+
+You can bring up an interface with DHCP by setting the 
+.No ifconfig_ Ns Em interface
+variable to "DHCP". For instance, if your 
+.Qq Ar ed0
+device was to be initialized via DHCP, you might have something
+like:
+.Bd -literal
+ifconfig_ed0="DHCP"
 .It Ar ppp_enable
 (bool) If set to
 .Ar YES ,



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