HP-UX LAN Administrator's Guide (Feburary 2007)
Table Of Contents
- About This Document
- 1 New for the HP-UX 11i v3 Release
- 2 Installing HP-UX LAN
- 3 Configuring HP-UX LAN Using SAM
- 4 Manually Installing and Configuring HP-UX LAN
- 5 Troubleshooting HP-UX LAN
- Troubleshooting Overview
- Troubleshooting Q & A
- LAN Interface Card Statistics
- 100Base-T Checklist
- Diagnostic Flowcharts
- Flowchart 1: Configuration Test
- Flowchart 2: Configuration Test continued
- Flowchart 3: Configuration Test continued
- Flowchart 4: Network Level Loopback Test
- Flowchart 5: Network Level Loopback Test continued
- Flowchart 6: Transport Level Loopback Test (using Internet Services)
- Flowchart 7: Link Level Loopback Test
- Flowchart 8: LAN Connections Test
- Flowchart 9: Gateway Remote Loopback Test
- Flowchart 10: Gateway Remote Loopback Test continued
- Flowchart 11: Subnet Test
- 6 LAN Resources
- 7 Network Addressing
- Overview of Network Addressing Schemes
- Networking Terminology
- Network Addresses and Node Names
- Internet Addresses
- Subnet Addresses
- Configuring Gateways on Fixed-Length Subnets
- Variable-Length Subnet Addressing
- Configuring Gateways on Variable-Length Subnets
- Configuring Gateways on Supernets
- IP Multicast Addresses
- Virtual IP (VIP) Addresses
- CIDR - Classless Inter-Domain Routing
- 8 LAN Device and Interface Terminology

Index
147
distinguished from internet address
, 102
host address, 97
host name, 99
HP-UX host name, 99
Internet address, 96
link level address, 96
logical instances, 142
MAC address, 96
NFS host name, 99
port address, 98
reserved, 103
station address, 96
subnetting, 105
system host name, 99
system node name, 99
TCP port number, 98
troubleshooting, 103, 112
UDP port number, 98
Network Interface Name and Unit definition,
93
NFS host name, 99
O
OLA/R
, ix
Online help system
SAM, 9
P
ping(1M)
, 15
manpage, 84
Port, 98
address, 98
number and /etc/services, 31
R
Reserved addresses
, 103
route(1M), 111, 116, 123, 129
manpage, 84
Routes and Protocols
definition
, 93
Routing
dynamic
, 116, 129
explicit, 116, 129
multicast, 134
Routing table
adding entries, 26
definition, 94
S
SAM
See System Administration Manager
, 9
shutdown(2M), 5
Software
configuring with SAM
, 10
loading with swinstall, 4
Station address, 96
Subnet
addressing
, 105, 107
configuring gateways, 113, 116, 129
example, 111, 123
fixed-length addressing, 91, 109
variable-length addressing, 91, 118
Supernet
addressing
, 91, 137
configuring gateways, 132
swinstall(1M), 4
System Administration Manager
configuring LAN cards
, 10
configuring network connectivity, 13
description of, 9
initializing LAN cards, 10
online help system, 9
System naming
host name
, 28, 99
node name, 99
system name, 28
T
TCP port number
, 98
Terminology
LAN device
, 141
network, 93
Tracing
messages
, 86
Troubleshooting
contacting HP representative
, 51, 87
network addresses, 103, 112
U
UDP port number
, 98
uname(1M), 3, 87, 88
V
Verifying
LAN installation
, 15
network connectivity, 14
Virtual IP (VIP) Address, 135