> From Mike Luther's post
>>  But what isn't often realized, for folks who are using startup
>> DCHP addressing for the LAN, is that you have to be connected
>> to SOMETHING which will give you a discrete private address for
>> the LAN you want to use with Seamonkey BEFORE you can connect
>> to the router or the bridge!  One thing that is handy to remember about OS/2 is that it is very easy to open up a command line window and temporarily give yourself a fixed IP address on the subnet you want without messing up your boot up DHCP configuration, or going thru the TCP/IP configuration panels, etc...  Simply release any DHCP address you previously were assigned, stop the monitor and issue some commands to flush things and assign a new IP address for while you are configuring the local hardware boxes... for example, on a 192.168.1.x network on a typical wired port (lan0):

route -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lan0 192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0