HP-UX 11i June 2002 Release Notes
Installation
set_parms Enhanced
Chapter 8
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Documentation
The Software Distributor Administration Guide has been extensively updated for
accuracy and completeness (including many new examples) for HP-UX 11i and is
available on the HP-UX Instant Information CD and on the http://docs.hp.com web
site. Another excellent source of information on SD-UX is the SD-UX web site:
http://software.hp.com/SD_AT_HP/
set_parms Enhanced
new at 11i
original release
The set_parms program is a GUI/TUI interface that normally runs only the first time
any HP-UX system is booted after installation if hostname/networking information has
not been set up in advance.
For HP-UX 11i, set_parms has been enhanced to allow you to select which networking
interface to set up. In prior releases, set_parms would pick the lowest numbered LAN
interface to configure in the absence of any other information. This was often the wrong
choice, especially when FDDI interfaces or other optional interfaces were present on the
system, forcing users into extra steps to configure the system properly.
This change will allow you to pick the LAN interface to be configured in both the case of
enabling DHCP (the user picks just after the decision to use DHCP) and in the normal
mainline case of setting an IP address (the user picks the interface just before setting the
IP address). With this change, no additional configuration steps are immediately needed
to get the system operational.
This change does not fix any previous defects.
There is a new manpage, set_parms (1M), delivered at HP-UX 11i. However, the program
itself is not new.