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Don't blame me, I voted for Rupert M <deleted@home.com>.
>I am running SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 Enterprise at home to expand my
>understanding of SCO.

Cool.  When you understand the place, drop me a line and explain it to me. :)

>The last item in the README shows to make alterations to the /etc/tcp
>file.  I have added the network card in netconfig with the ip address
>this machine will probably get from the at&t server.  The "ifconfig"
>line added in /etc/tcp and the "route add" line were #'d out, and I
>added  "/etc/dhcpc start" as proposed in the README.  I am uncertain
>if any other work needs to be done to this file, and also if "/etc/dcc
>start" should be added instead of "/etc/dhcpc start" as proposed by a
>trusted poster to the newsgroup.

It should be "dcc start".  I didn't realize I had "dhcpc start" in there.
Mea culpa.

>When running /etc/dcc start or /etc/dhcpc start I get 
>
>    dhcpc: No offers have been received
>    dhcpc: No offers have been received
>    dhcpc: No offers have been received
>    dhcpc: 3 attempts to get IP address have failed
>    chcpc: Exiting...shutdown interface net0

Are you sure you actually have a DHCP server on the other end of the
wire?  What that's telling you is that nobody's answering the client's
queries.

You can get more details by running dhcpc in debug mode--I haven't got a
copy handy at the moment (I'm at home) but I think it'd be something
like "/etc/dhcpc -D 3"... I expect the result will be a lot of lines
that say the client is sending DHCPDISCOVER packets and not getting
anything back.

>In addition, I am uncertain where my machine name should be listed.
>My assigned machine name from att is c132176-c.  uname -S will not
>accept that name.  When i added the nic card, i specified that name.

Uname doesn't like it because it's more than 8 characters long.

At a wild guess, you might want to put "hostname:c132176-c" (on a
line by itself) into your dhcpc.conf file.  Perhaps the reason you're
not getting responses to the queries is that the server wants you to
identify yourself with that hostname.  Worth a shot, anyway.

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