worth mentioning: making DHCP run on startup

[martinko]

hello,

i had this problem when sysinstall(8) configured my network interface 
for DHCP (in /etc/rc.conf) but DHCP failed to initialise properly on 
(each) startup. long time afterwards only i found out simple solution to 
this - using "ifconfig {if} up" in /etc/start_if.{if}

i guess this is not uncommon problem, therefore i would suggest it to be 
mentioned in the handbook. it might save beginners many hours and nerves 
spent on this issue.

regards,

martin

ps: attached is the email i wanted to post to a newsgroup at that time 
but didn't eventually.
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