simple networking question

[Russell McManus]

I've got a 9600 up and running 3.0.1 thanks to this list.  Now I'm
trying to get this beast on the network.

I have two interfaces in the box:

eth0: MACE at ..., chip revision 25.64
eth1: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 ...

I want to use eth1 for networking.  I don't care about eth0 for now.
I bring up eth1 with:

  ifconfig eth1 up
  ifconfig eth1

This shows that the interface is up and running.

Now I do 'dhclient eth1', which fails.  Packets never seem to hit the
network.

So now I try to add a default route.  Every route command exits with:

"SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable"

Clearly I am missing a very simple step.  And ideas what I am missing
here?

-russ