HP-UX VLAN Administrator's Guide, February 2007

About This Document

This document describes how to configure, administer, and troubleshoot HP-UX VLAN

functionality.

You can find the latest version of this document at the HP Technical Documentation website:

http://www.docs.hp.com

Intended Audience

This document is intended for system and network administrators responsible for configuring

and administering HP-UX Virtual LANs (VLANs). Administrators are expected to have knowledge

of HP-UX and networking concepts, commands and configuration.

This document is not a tutorial.

New and Changed Information in This Edition

This document reflects the following changes to the HP-UX VLAN product on HP-UX 11i Version

• Support for HP-UX VLAN over HP-UX Auto Port Aggregation (APA) software. Support

for HP-UX VLANs over APA aggregates and LAN Monitor failover groups combines the

traffic isolation benefits of VLAN technology with the high availability and high bandwidth

capabilities of APA and LAN Monitor technology on HP-UX servers.

• Support for the new command-line interface (CLI) network utility, nwmgr. As of this release,

nwmgr serves as a single tool for performing all network interface-related tasks. It supersedes

the lanadmin, lanscan, and linkloop commands, which are deprecated in this release,

and will be obsoleted in a future HP-UX release.

• Support for configuration using the HP System Management Homepage (SMH) Network

Interfaces Configuration tool.

HP-UX Release Name and Release Identifier

Each HP-UX 11i release has an associated release name and release identifier. The uname -r

command returns the release identifier. The following table lists the releases available for HP-UX

11i:

Supported SystemRelease NameRelease Identifier

HP 9000HP-UX 11i Version 1B.11.11

HP 9000 and HP IntegrityHP-UX 11i Version 2B.11.23

HP 9000 and HP IntegrityHP-UX 11i Version 3B.11.31

Document Organization

This document is organized as follows:

DescriptionChapter

This chapter provides information about HP-UX VLANs and describes the

benefits and features of using HP-UX VLANs.

Chapter 1: “Introduction” (page 13)

This chapter explains how to administer HP-UX VLANs using HP SMH.Chapter 2: “Using HP SMH to

Configure and Administer HP-UX

VLANs” (page 29)