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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:00:32 -0600
"Bagus" <bagus@cox.net> wrote:

> > The FreeBSD Handbook is a great reference:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
> 
> Yes... there's more information there than I saw on first perusal.
> Thanks, but I'm not out of the woods yet.

since you seem to have missed a few rather important bits of handbook on
your first read, let us check one more.

are you by any chance using a custom kernel?  if so, please confirm that
it includes 'device bpf' (which is essential for DHCP).

hth,
epi