Installing and Administering LAN/9000 Software

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Preface
This manual provides information for installing and administering the
LAN/ 9000 product. The LAN/9000 product allows HP 9000 computers to
connect to an IEEE 802.3 or Ethernet Local Area Network. A LAN/9000
network can be further extended via bridges and routers into a Wide
Area Network.
This manual also includes the information that may be useful for
configuring other HP-UX link products, such as Token Ring/9000, FDDI/
9000, 100Base-T HSC/9000 and 100Base-T PCI/9000. Specifically, this
information includes:
• Manual configuration of links
• Network addressing
• LAN device and interface terminology
The information in this manual is intended for network managers or
operators who install and administer LAN/9000 on TCP/IP networks. It
is assumed the reader is experienced with HP-UX and is familiar with
the basics of local and wide area networking.
The manual is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 Installing LAN/9000 describes how to install LAN/
9000 software.
Chapter 2 Configuring LAN/9000 Using SAM describes the
steps to configure LAN/9000 software automatically
using the System Administration Manager (SAM).
Chapter 3 Manually Installing and Configuring LAN/9000
describes the steps to build the kernel, create device
files, and manually configure LAN/9000 using the vi
editor. The information in this chapter can be used to
manually configure other HP-UX link products.
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting LAN/9000 provides flowcharts to
help diagnose LAN/9000 software and hardware
problems. This chapter also describes LAN card status
values and statistics returned by lanadmin(1M).
Chapter 5 LAN Resources provides references to other useful
tools for installing, configuring, and maintaining LAN/