Keith,

> Can someone point me to a step by step recipe for configuring Solaris 8
> as a DHCP _client_?

# touch /etc/dhcp.${IFACE}
# > /etc/hostname.${IFACE}

Where ${IFACE} is your interface on which you'd like to configure DHCP.

The second line erases the content of /etc/hostname.${IFACE} . Only do
this if your dhcp server provides an hostname to the client. Otherwise,
the client will be named 'unknown'.

On http://docs.sun.com you can find more information on DHCP.

HTH,

Ralf