HP-UX LAN Administrator's Guide (July 2003)

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HP-UX Man Pages

Chapter 584

HP-UX Man Pages

While installing, conﬁguring, or troubleshooting HP-UX LAN, you may need to refer to any of

the following online man pages (manual reference pages) for useful HP-UX operating system

or HP-UX LAN 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.

• hosts(4) contains database that contains a single line entry for each host name entry.

• ifalias(1M) conﬁgures network interface to support multiple IP addresses at Network

Layer.

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

as the netmask, broadcast address, and trailer support.

• 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) resets or reports status of the LAN card.

• lanconfig(1M) conﬁgures network interface parameters at Data-Link Layer.

• lanscan(1M) displays information about LAN adapters that are successfully bound to the

system.

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

• ndd(1M) displays and modiﬁes network driver parameters.

• netfmt(1M) formats the nettl tracing and logging binary ﬁles.

• netstat(1M) provides network statistics and information about network connections.

• nettladm(1M) captures and controls network tracing and logging information.

• nettl(1M) controls network tracing and logging.

• ping (1M) veriﬁes network connectivity through the Network Layer and reports

round-trip time of communications between the local and remote hosts.

• route(1M) adds and deletes entries to the network routing table, allowing your system to

communicate through a gateway.

• swinstall(1M) loads software ﬁlesets onto 10.0 systems.

• traceroute(1M) traces the network path between two points at Network Layer.