Manuel and Alan, et al

Ok, That issue got solved, thanks for the pointers!  The output follows 
below ...

After I got it on the net, I needed to add a user so I could telnet and 
ftp in.  Boy, what a chore that was.  I could add a user, but some 
stupid un-usable password kept getting set.

After much searching I ran vipw and erased the '*' that was set (where 
did that come from?).  I tried to figure out how to set it with useradd 
and usermod, but I couldn't guess how to get the encrypted password ( ! 
? ).  But for now that is done.   What did I miss? there has to be a 
better way to add a user!

Jeesh, this is much different than Novell or (that other one).  Oh well, 
since I want to run with the big dogs I guess I have to know the secret 
handshake!

Well, I ramble on ... now that I can telnet in from (that other one) I 
can work getting it to ping google.com (ping 192.168.0.1 works!), but 
that is probably a name service or something (right?).  And then on to 
APACHE which is the real goal.

Thanks for the help

-mac


<output>
$ ifconfig -a
tlp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         address: 00:c0:f0:59:e6:74
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
         status: active
         inet 192.168.0.155 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
         inet6 fe80::2c0:f0ff:fe59:e674%tlp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 33220
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
sl1: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
strip0: flags=0<> mtu 1100
strip1: flags=0<> mtu 1100

$ ifconfig -m tlp0
tlp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         address: 00:c0:f0:59:e6:74
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
         status: active
         supported Ethernet media:
                 media none
                 media 10baseT
                 media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                 media 100baseTX
                 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                 media autoselect
         inet 192.168.0.155 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
         inet6 fe80::2c0:f0ff:fe59:e674%tlp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
$