I've finally gotten the images off the howto's and I'm still having
trouble

after bootup i get this message 

ae0: flags = 8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
media:manual
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0x0

later on I just get network unreachable

my gues is that the 0.0.0.0 is a big problem, but i've checked all my
numbers and names as many times as possible, they all look right

occasionally on bootup i get 

ae0:amount of memory
ae0:hardware address
ae0:Ring overflow

does this  have something to do with it 

help i'm completely lost

thankyou in advance 
don smith