Installing and Administering LAN/9000 Software

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Manually Installing and Configuring LAN/9000
Activating Optional Network Features
Parameters
protocol_name Name of the protocol. Protocol names can contain any
printable character except spaces, newline, or the
comment character (#).
protocol_num Protocol number that identifies this protocol.
alias Common name or names for the protocol. An alias is a
substitute for protocol_name . Alias names are
optional.
/etc/protocols Format
• Lines cannot start with a blank or tab character.
• Fields can have any number of blanks or tab characters separating
them.
• Comments are allowed and designated by a pound sign (#) character
preceding the comment text.
• Trailing blank and tab characters are allowed.
• Blank line entries are allowed.
• Only one entry per line is allowed.
/etc/protocols Permissions
The /etc/protocols file should be owned by user bin, group bin, and it
should have 0444 (-r—r—r—) access permission.
Refer to the /etc/protocols file for examples of actual format and
contents. For more information on /etc/protocols, refer to the
protocols(4) man page in the HP-UX Reference Pages.
/etc/protocols Example
The following /etc/protocols entry contains a protocol name, protocol
number and an alias name.
tcp 6 TCP