Installing and Administering LAN/9000 Software

52 Chapter3

Manually Installing and Conﬁguring LAN/9000

Editing the LAN Conﬁguration Files

ROUTE_ARGS[0]=””

The index value must be different for each additional route.

If you want to modify the preset station address of any HP interface

card, proceed to the section, “Modifying the Hewlett-Packard Station

Address”; otherwise go to the section, “Executing the Network

Conﬁguration Script.”

Executing the Network Conﬁguration Script

Once you have edited the netconf ﬁle, you need to make your

conﬁguration active. After adding the LAN and routing conﬁguration

information into the netconf ﬁle, you can either reboot your system,

execute the ifconfig, and route commands manually, or re-execute the

/sbin/init.d/net.init and /sbin/init.d/net scripts. This section

discusses each of these options.

Option 1: Reboot your system. HP recommends that you reboot your

system to activate any changes you made in your netconf ﬁle. A reboot

is the cleanest method for executing the network script because the

reboot handles any other network initialization dependencies.

Option 2: Execute the ifconfig and route commands at the HP-UX

prompt. HP recognizes that system reboots are disruptive to end users.

To delay or schedule the reboot, but still make your conﬁguration

changes active, you may execute the ifconfig and route commands

with the appropriate values for your network. When you do reboot, the

values in your netconf ﬁle will be used. Refer to the lanscan(1M),

ifconfig(1M), and route(1M) man pages for information on command

usage.

Option 3:

If you made changes to the station address, execute the Init Script in the

directory /sbin/init.d/. Refer to Table 3-3 or Table 3-4 for correct Init

Script. For a 100BT PCI card on a SuperDome system, here’s an

example:

/sbin/init.d/btlan start

After executing the above command, execute the command:

/sbin/init.d/net start

These commands will source the contents of the netconf and

hpbtlanconf ﬁles. Executing these scripts will not necessarily properly