HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

ndd(1M) ndd(1M)

DIAGNOSTICS

When the command fails, an error message is printed to the standard error and the command terminates

with an exit value of one.

WARNINGS

Care must be used when setting parameters for a network_device. Setting a tunable parameter to an inap-

propriate value can result in adverse affects to your networking operations.

EXAMPLES

To get help information on all supported tunable parameters:

ndd -h supported

To get a detail description of the tunable parameter,

ip_forwarding:

ndd -h ip_forwarding

To get a list of all TCP related parameters:

ndd -get /dev/tcp ?

To get the current value of the tunable parameter,

ip_forwarding:

ndd -get /dev/ip ip_forwarding

To set the value of the default TTL parameter for UDP to 128:

ndd -set /dev/udp udp_def_ttl 128

FILES

/etc/rc.config.d/nddconf

Contains tunable parameters that will be set automatically each time

the system boots.

AUTHOR

ndd was developed by HP.

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