Exploring DRD Rehosting in HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 (July 2010)

If you have acquired the system information file with the drd unrehost command (described later)

on a system that has already been rehosted, you must remove the parameter before re-using the file.

Identifying a network interface

You must identify each network interface that you will use on the target system by MAC (media access

control) address or the hardware path of the interface. If both SYSINFO_MAC_ADDRESS and

SYSINFO_LAN_HW_PATH are specified, SYSINFO_MAC_ADDRESS takes precedence and

SYSINFO_LAN_HW_PATH is ignored. The number “n” used as the array index has a minimum value

of 0 and a maximum value of 1023. All the parameters for a given interface must use the same

index.

SYSINFO_MAC_ADDRESS[n]

Default - None

Status - This parameter is required for an interface if SYSINFO_LAN_HW_PATH is not specified for

the interface.

Value - The prefix "0x" followed by a value of the MAC address expressed as 12 hex digits

(for example, 0x0017A451E718) In the initial rehosting support, the alphabetic

characters must be in uppercase.

SYSINFO_LAN_HW_PATH[n]

Default - None

Status - The SYSINFO_LAN_HW_PATH must be specified for any interface for which

SYSINFO_MAC_ADDRESS is not supplied.

Value - A hardware path, specified by non-negative integers, separated by forward slashes ("/").

Managing a network interface with DHCP

If the interface is to be managed by DHCP, the only other parameter required for the interface is

SYSINFO_DHCP_ENABLE[n]=1:

SYSINFO_DHCP_ENABLE[n]

Default - 0

Status - For a given network interface, either SYSINFO_DHCP_ENABLE

must be set to 1 or static network parameters must be

specified.

Value - 0 - DHCP client functionality is not enabled for this

interface.

1 - DHCP client functionality is enabled for this interface.

Using static parameters to configure a network interface

If the network interface will not be managed by DHCP, then the SYSINFO_IP_ADDRESS[n] and

SYSINFO_SUBNET_MASK[n] must be specified for the interface:

SYSINFO_IP_ADDRESS[n]=<decimal-dot IP address>

Default - None