CONFIGURING THE DHCP CLIENT
You can enable DHCP on one or more of the network interfaces installed on your server or workstation. Configuring a DHCP client is very easy. First you must determine on which interface you want to enable DHCP. If this interface is already configured with an IP address, you have to unconfigure it using the ifconfig <interface> unplumb command.
Manually Configuring the DHCP Client
Use the ifconfig command to list the interfaces. If an interface is not listed but you know it is present, use the ifconfig plumb command to bring it up. The following command brings hme1 up:
bash-2.03# ifconfig hme1 plumb
bash-2.03# Use the following command to list this interface to determine what the current configuration is:
bash-2.03# ...
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