Installing and Administering LAN/9000 Software

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Manually Installing and Conﬁguring LAN/9000

Editing the LAN Conﬁguration Files

To conﬁgure and initialize LAN manually, you must edit the

/etc/rc.config.d/netconf ﬁle and execute the LAN/9000

initialization script. To do so, you must be logged on as super-user. The

script reads the information in the edited netconf ﬁle when the system

reboots and performs the following:

• Conﬁgures the network interface with an IP address and optional

subnet mask.

• Conﬁgures the network routing table if your node is a gateway or on a

LAN with a gateway.

NOTE You must initialize LAN/9000 (reboot with netconf installed) to use

NFS/9000 or Internet Services/9000.

You may also want to modify the default station address. To modify the

station address, you must edit the Conﬁguration File in the directory

/etc/rc.config.d. Refer to Table 3-3 or Table 3-4 for correct

conﬁguration ﬁle.

Modifying the Hewlett-Packard Station Address

(optional)

This step is optional and most customers do not need to modify the

station address of their Hewlett-Packard LAN cards.

Modifying the station address of an active card will probably destroy

existing connections and trafﬁc resulting in data loss. Modifying the

station address can also cause temporary confusion in the network

because all nodes that were communicating with the local node will

detect an error when using the existing station address. The confusion is

temporary and all nodes may eventually recover from the situation.

Problems caused by modifying a station address during a communication

session are difﬁcult to troubleshoot.

Editing the Conﬁguration File in /etc/rc.conﬁg.d/

Editing the conﬁguration ﬁle (Refer to Table 3-3 or Table 3-4 for correct