What’s in This Document

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

This manual also includes some information that may be useful for configuring other HP-UX link products, such as 10/100Base-T PCI. 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 HP-UX LAN 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 HP-UX LAN describes how to install HP-UX LAN software.
Chapter 2: Configuring HP-UX LAN Using SAM describes the steps to configure HP-UX LAN software automatically using the System Administration Manager (SAM).
Chapter 3: Manually Installing and Configuring HP-UX LAN describes the steps to build the kernel, create device files, and manually configure HP-UX LAN using the vi editor.
Chapter 4: Troubleshooting HP-UX LAN provides flowcharts to help diagnose HP-UX LAN software and hardware problems. This chapter also describes LAN card status values and statistics returned by lanadmin.
Chapter 5: LAN Resources provides references to other useful tools for installing, configuring, and maintaining HP-UX LAN 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.




	IMPORTANT: HP-UX 11i v2, by default, supports IPv6 transport. This guide does not include IPv6 transport information. Refer to HP-UX IPv6 Transport Administrator’s Guide and HP-UX IPv6 Porting Guide for IPv6 transport information on HP-UX 11i v2.




	NOTE: This manual does not contain the procedures for adding and replacing PCI cards using OLA/R. OLA/R stands for On Line Addition and Replacement. This refers to the ability of a PCI I/O card to be replaced (removed and/or added) to an HP-UX computer system designed to support this feature without the need for completely shutting down, then rebooting the system or affecting other system components. If you want to utilize the OLA/R feature that your system provides, refer to the Interface Card OL Support Guide*.

HP-UX Release Name and Release Identifier

Each HP-UX 11i release has an associated release name and release identifier. The uname(1) command with the -r option returns the release identifier. This table shows the releases available for HP-UX 11i.

Table 2 HP-UX 11i Releases

Release Identifier	Release Name	Supported Processor Architecture
B.11.23	HP-UX 11i v2	Intel® Itanium®
B.11.22	HP-UX 11i v1.6	Intel® Itanium®
B.11.20	HP-UX 11i v1.5	Intel® Itanium®
B.11.11	HP-UX 11i v1	PA-RISC

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