Setting DHCP client under FreeBSD

Edit your /etc/rc.conf to include the following:

ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"

If you are using a different location for dhclient, or if you wish to pass additional flags to dhclient, also include the following (editing as necessary):

dhclient_program="/sbin/dhclient" dhclient_flags=""



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• /etc/dhclient.conf

  dhclient requires a configuration file, /etc/dhclient.conf. Typically the file contains only comments, the defaults being reasonably sane. This configuration file is described by the manual page.

• /sbin/dhclient

  dhclient is statically linked and resides in /sbin. The manual page gives more information about dhclient.

• /sbin/dhclient-script

  dhclient-script is the FreeBSD-specific DHCP client configuration script. It is described in , but should not need any user modification to function properly.

• /var/db/dhclient.leases

  The DHCP client keeps a database of valid leases in this file, which is written as a log. gives a slightly longer description.