Verifying Remote System Configuration

View the list of remote systems you can communicate with, using a symbolic name, by typing the following command at the HP-UX prompt:

more /etc/hosts

View the configured destinations reached through gateways and the gateways used to reach those destinations, by typing the following command at the HP-UX prompt:

netstat -r

Test for link level loopback connectivity by using the station address of the interface you want to test. Use the NMID to select the interface. (You can obtain the station address (typically 0x080009######) from the lanscan output.) Use the following syntax:

linkloop -i <NMID> <station address>

For example:

linkloop -i 5 0x080009266C3F

To check that the your system can communicate with other systems, type the ping command at the HP-UX prompt. In this example, 191.2.1.2 is the IP address of the remote system. Type [CNTRL]-C to stop ping.

ping 191.2.1.2

Check the state of all FDDI hardware and interfaces. Execute the lanscan command and verify that the Hardware State and the Net-Interface State is UP.

lanscan

If the FDDI device file has not been created, execute the following command:

/usr/sbin/hpfddi_init devfile

Verify the link level encapsulation with the lanconfig command. The example below will provide information about Net-Interface NameUnit lan1.

lanconfig lan1

Verify that the appropriate device files have been created. In the example below the first line lists the HP FDDI/9000 device files, the second line lists the diagnostic device files.

ls -l /dev/lan* ls -l /dev/nettrace /dev/netlog