Well...it looks like i'm halfway there....here's what I learned (trial and error)
The lo0: interface (loopback) cannot be configured to DHCP, it must be a default system setting. However, by creating a file hostname.hme0 in the /etc directory (just a blank datafile) I was able to get the ifconfig command to initialize a useable interface. The following command got me a pingable connection out
ifconfig hme0 dhcp
thats the halfway part....I can ping numerical addresses 225.225.225.000 etc., but cannot resolve names such a
http://www.sun.com......any suggestions?
thanks
[Edited by frustrated on 02-09-2001 at 05:40 PM]