On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 08:44:18PM -0600, Iceberg Security wrote:
... 
> I am having trouble configuring this machine to use DHCP.
...
> but when I try
> to ping, I see the network activity light on the  hub going, and I get the
> msg.
> 
> "ping: sendto: No route to host "
...
> What things can I check?

/etc/rc.conf should have

dhclient=YES                                    # behave as a DHCP client
dhclient_flags=""                               # blank: config all interfaces

in it..

ifconfig -a should tell you if your network interface has an ip number
assigned to it, ie., if dhcp worked you should have a number there.

If it doesn't try "dhclient" at the prompt, see what errors you get (if
it says something about port already in use, then dhclient is already
running)

Well, that's a start I suppose..

Good luck,

Patrick