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

DRAFT COPY Troubleshooting HP-UX LAN
Troubleshooting Q & A
Chapter 5 41
Answer: Addresses with the format 127.n.n.n are reserved as loopback addresses. Select
another IP address. You can obtain Class C addresses that are unique within the ARPANET
by contacting Government Systems, Inc.
Related Documentation: Refer to “Assigning an Internet Address” in Chapter 6.
Displaying station address: How do I locate the station address of my LAN card?
Answer: Use the nwmgr or lanscan command to display the station addresses of all LAN cards
in the system:
nwmgr
Or,
lanscan
Related Documentation: Refer to the nwmgr (1M) or lanscan(1M) man page.
Resetting LAN card: How do I reset the LAN card?
Answer: Run the lanadmin diagnostic by entering the following sequence of commands, where
x
is the Physical Point of Attachment (PPA) of the interface you want to reset. (Use the
lanscan or nwmgr command to determine the PPA of the interface on the system.)
lanadmin
lan
ppa
x
reset
quit
Related Documentation: Refer to the lanadmin(1M) man page.
You can also reset the LAN card using the reset operation of the nwmgr command. See
nwmgr(1M) for details.
Tracing: What's the best way to obtain and format tracing information when I am using the
nettl utility?
Answer: HP field engineers recommend the following commands:
To begin LAN and loopback tracing, execute:
nettl -tn pduin pduout -e ns_ls_driver -f
filename
To end LAN tracing, execute:
nettl -tf -e all
To format your entire LAN trace (no filtering), execute:
netfmt -Nnl -f
filename
.TRC1 > fmt1
netfmt -Nnl -f
filename
.TRC0 > fmt0