Installing and Administering LAN/9000 Software

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LAN Resources

HP-UX Manual Reference Pages

While installing, conﬁguring, or troubleshooting LAN, you may need to

refer to any of the following online manual reference pages (man pages)

for useful HP-UX operating system or LAN commands. To display a man

page, type the following at the system prompt:

man <command name>

• arp(1M) displays and modiﬁes the Internet-to-Ethernet and

Internet-to-Fibre Channel address translation tables used by the

Address Resolution Protocol.

• eisa_config(1M)interprets information stored in conﬁguration

ﬁles and uses it to conﬁgure system resources needed to properly

interact with EISA cards on HP 9000 EISA systems.

• hosts(4) contains database that contains a single line entry for each

host name entry.

• ifalias(1M) conﬁgures network interface to support multiple IP

addresses at Network Layer.

• ifconfig(1M) assigns an address to a network interface and

conﬁgures parameters, such as the netmask, broadcast address, and

trailer support.

• ioscan(1M) scans system hardware, usable I/O system devices, or

kernel I/O system data structures as appropriate, and lists the

results.

• lanadmin(1M) resets or reports status of the LAN card.

• lanconfig(1M) conﬁgures network interface parameters at

Data-Link Layer.

• lanscan(1M) displays information about LAN adapters that are

successfully bound to the system.

• linkloop(1M) veriﬁes network connectivity through the Data Link

Layer.

• ndd(1M) displays and modiﬁes network driver parameters.

• netfmt(1M) formats the nettl tracing and logging binary ﬁles.