HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

Installation

set_parms Enhanced (new)

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set_parms Enhanced (new)

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 the selection of

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 often was the wrong interface, 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.