HP-UX LAN Administrator's Guide (Feburary 2007)

DRAFT COPY Manually Installing and Configuring HP-UX LAN
Editing LAN Configuration Files
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Option 1: Reboot your system. HP recommends that you reboot your system to activate any
changes you made in your netconf file. A reboot is the cleanest method for executing the
network script because the reboot handles any other network initialization dependencies.
Option 2: Execute the ifconfig and route commands at the HP-UX prompt. HP recognizes
that system reboots are disruptive to end users. To delay or schedule the reboot, but still make
your configuration changes active, you may execute the ifconfig and route commands with
the appropriate values for your network. When you reboot, the values in your netconf file
will be used. Refer to the ifconfig(1M) and route(1M) man pages for information on
command usage.
Option 3:
If you made changes to the station address, execute the init script in the directory /sbin/init.d/.
Refer to Table 4-2 and Table 4-3 for some examples, and to your specific Ethernet LAN
documentation, as appropriate for your configuration, for correct init script. For a 100BT PCI
card on an rx2600 system, here’s an example:
/sbin/init.d/btlan start
After executing the above command, execute the command:
/sbin/init.d/net start
These commands will source the contents of the netconf and hpbtlanconf files. Executing
these scripts will not necessarily properly re-initialize any other networking subsystems. For
example, if you are running an Internet Service over the link you have just configured
manually, the service may not work with your new configuration. The system boot sequence
initializes networking subsystems and products in the correct order. Initializing a specific
subsystem alone may cause network problems.