In order to use DHCP, you need to install the ifupdown and isc-dhcp-client packages, and manually create the following symbolic link:

# ln -s ../rcS.d/S10networking /etc/rc.boot/

During execution at boot time, the S10networking script will emit some error messages while trying to configure the loopback interface. These are not fatal.

Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't currently execute Debian standard /etc/rcS.d/* boot scripts, but has its own /libexec/rc script -- which integrates scripts from /etc/rc.boot/ instead.

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