Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Planning a Workgroup
A Sample Workgroup / Network
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A Sample Workgroup / Network
To provide consistency among the case studies and examples throughout
Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System
Administrators (MSW), we have developed a sample workgroup/network
to demonstrate a variety of situations and tasks.
While it is impossible to account for every possible combination of
equipment and network topography, we have tried to account for many
common configurations.
The MSW Network (Overview)
The MSW network has two “subnets”, joined at a gateway computer that
has two networking interface cards in it. The subnets, known as “net1”
and “net2,” use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in the following ranges:
net1 15. nn . yy .0 through 15. nn . yy .256
net2 15. nn . xx .0 through 15. nn . xx .256
NOTE The IP addresses used in the example network and throughout MSW are
designated using the nonspecific address components “ nn ”, “ xx ”, and “ yy ”
to avoid conflicting with real-world IP addresses. IP addresses do not
normally contain letters.
Throughout this book, subnets net1 and net2 are part of a generic
domain called “corporate”.
Figure 2-1 on page 68 shows an overview of the example network for
Managing Systems and Workgroups. The section “The MSW Network
(System by System)” on page 69 gives detailed information about the
systems in the example network.