Configuring Networking and LAN Adapters

We'll cover several topics in this section. First we'll identify the LAN cards in our system. Next we'll use set_parms to configure the first LAN card and view all of the configuration files that were update. Then we'll manually configure the second LAN card.

Identify LAN Cards in System

The first step to take when configuring networking is to identify the networking cards in your HP 9000. You can have multiple LAN cards in a system and configure multiple IP addresses on the same LAN card if you wish. The following ioscan listing shows three LAN cards in a server:

# ioscan -funC lan Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description ======================================================================== ...

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