HP e3000/iX Network Planning and Configuration Guide (36922-90037)

Contents

6. Conﬁguring a LAN, Token Ring, FDDI, 100VG-AnyLAN, 100Base-T

Node

To Conﬁgure a LAN Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

To Conﬁgure a Token Ring Network Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

To Conﬁgure an FDDI Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

To Conﬁgure a 100VG-AnyLAN Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

To Conﬁgure a 100Base-T Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

To Conﬁgure Neighbor Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

To Identify Neighbor Gateways (If Any Are Present). . . . . . . . . . . 115

To Identify Neighbor Gateway Reachable Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 117

7. Conﬁguring a Point-to-Point Node

To Conﬁgure a Point-to-Point Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

To Conﬁgure Neighbor Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

To Identify Neighbor Gateways (If Any Are Present). . . . . . . . . . . 127

To Identify Neighbor Gateway Reachable Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 129

To Conﬁgure Node Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

To Select a Node Mapping Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

To Conﬁgure Shared Dial Node Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

To Conﬁgure Direct Connect/Dial Node Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

8. Conﬁguring an X.25 Node

To Conﬁgure an X.25 Network Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

To Conﬁgure X.25 Virtual Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

To Conﬁgure Neighbor Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

To Identify Neighbor Gateways (If Any Are Present). . . . . . . . . . . 147

To Identify Neighbor Gateway Reachable Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 148

9. Conﬁguring a Gateway Half

To Conﬁgure a Gatehalf Network Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

10. Validating Network Transport and Cross-Validating with SYSGEN

To Validate the Network Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

To Cross-Validate in SYSGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

11. Conﬁguring the Network Directory

To Open the Network Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

To Select the Update Directory Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

To Add Nodes to the Network Directory File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

To Conﬁgure Path Report Data for a Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

12. Conﬁguring Domain Name Files

To Create or Modify the Resolver File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

To Create or Modify the Hosts File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176