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Old 20th August 2011
shep shep is offline
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Most open wifi hotspots assign DHCP addresses AFTER you
1) Bring the network up
2) Request the address with dhclient.

OpenBSD has a script that does all this at boot and reads the values in /etc/hostname.rum0

At the time of this post I believe that this link is succinct and accurate
openbsd-restart-network/

Last edited by shep; 20th August 2011 at 03:19 PM. Reason: spelling
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