Installing and Administering HP FDDI/9000 Software

14 Chapter 1

FDDI Resources

HP-UX Manual Reference Pages

While installing, conﬁguring, or troubleshooting HP FDDI/9000, you may

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

pages) for useful HP-UX operating system or HP FDDI 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.

• fddiinit(1M) initializes the HP FDDI network interface and connects

the system to the HP FDDI network.

• fddinet(1M) displays connection information about the local ring, a

speciﬁed remote node, or all nodes connected to the same HP FDDI

ring.

• fddisetup(1M) initializes all the HP FDDI network interfaces on a

system and connects to the HP FDDI network.

• fddistat(1M) displays information about the status of the HP FDDI

interface.

• fddistop(1M) stops and resets the HP FDDI interfaces.

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

parameters.

• 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) is a local area network administration program that

allows you to display and change various aspects of your interface

cards.

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

successfully bound to the system.

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

Layer.

• mknod(1M) creates device ﬁles with user-speciﬁed major and minor

numbers.