Preface

This manual provides information for installing and administering the LAN/ 9000 product. The LAN/9000 product allows HP 9000 computers to connect to an IEEE 802.3 or Ethernet Local Area Network. A LAN/9000 network can be further extended via bridges and routers into a Wide Area Network.

This manual also includes the information that may be useful for configuring other HP-UX link products, such as Token Ring/9000, FDDI/9000, 100Base-T HSC/9000 and 100Base-T PCI/9000. Specifically, this information includes:

Manual configuration of links
Network addressing
LAN device and interface terminology

The information in this manual is intended for network managers or operators who install and administer LAN/9000 on TCP/IP networks. It is assumed the reader is experienced with HP-UX and is familiar with the basics of local and wide area networking.

The manual is organized as follows:

Chapter 1: Installing LAN/9000 describes how to install LAN/9000 software.
Chapter 2: Configuring LAN/9000 Using SAM describes the steps to configure LAN/9000 software automatically using the System Administration Manager (SAM).
Chapter 3: Manually Installing and Configuring LAN/9000 describes the steps to build the kernel, create device files, and manually configure LAN/9000 using the vi editor. The information in this chapter can be used to manually configure other HP-UX link products.
Chapter 4: Troubleshooting LAN/9000 provides flowcharts to help diagnose LAN/9000 software and hardware problems. This chapter also describes LAN card status values and statistics returned by lanadmin(1M).
Chapter 5: LAN Resources provides references to other useful tools for installing, configuring, and maintaining LAN/9000 software.
Chapter 6: Network Addressing defines networking terms and explains network interface names, network addresses, names and subnets. The information in this chapter is applicable to configuring other HP-UX link products on TCP/IP networks.
Chapter 7: LAN Device and Interface Terminology defines terms used by the I/O system to identify LAN cards and device files. The information in this chapter is applicable to configuring other HP-UX link products on TCP/IP networks.

Preface

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