[MacNoobAndy]

Hi All

I inherited a Power Macintosh G3 last night, and after fixing the mouse I'm keen to learn how to use it. I'm a Computer Engineer by trade so have a fundamental understanding of networking but I have absolutely NO clue about Macs (though i'm keen to learn!)

My problem is:

I've connected the ethernet cable from the Mac to the router, and the router is setup to dish our DHCP leases. When I look in Control Panel at TCP IP it doesn't manage to get an IP address. (Router IS definately functioning as a DHCP server as my PC and laptop can obtain leases)

I've tried manually assigning an IP but that doesn't seem to work either, (i.e. when I run Internet Explorer it can't find any webpages)

Normally I'd carry out a PING test to see if the IP is reachable but I don't know how to do this with the Mac.

I suspect the Mac has been on a network elsewhere, as I found a proxy server listed in IE (which i've removed), so there may be settings elsewhere causing me problems?