configuring the IP address on a APC Matrix UPS network card

[MAD_2]

I am trying to configure the IP address for a network card on our network that is installed on an APC Matrix UPS (more information can be found below for this specific model)

Information about the Matrix APC UPS:
http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=72
Information about the card:
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP9617
Network card Manual page (used as reference below):
http://sturgeon.apcc.com/techref.nsf/partnum/990-7142A

The instructions in the installation booklet (page 15) tell to use as "gleaning" as one of the network configuration methods, the following steps apply.

1. Log into a machine in the same subnet (this happens to be a HP-UX 11.0)
2. use the command:
arp -s
3. Use ping to set the IP address:
ping -s 113
4. Use telnet to access the Management card console.

The problems I am encountering are the following:
1. When I use ping on step three above, I get "ping: illegal packet size"

What other method can I use to configure this card? Any ideas and/or suggestions on what may be going wrong? Thanks!

[Antoniov.]

Hi MAD,
I'm not sure understand; correct me if I wrong.
You have a HP UX host with a his IP address (for example 192.168.1.11) and hi subnet mask (for example 255.255.255.0).
Now you need associate the MAC address of your UPS card to a IP address (for example, if you have a card with 00-AA-00-26-06-59 and you will use 192.168.1.15 as IP you type
arp -s 00-AA-00-26-06-59 192.168.1.15
so in HP-UX you have created a statint entry fo IP address to locate a specific card).
Then you have check if your card answer to IP request so you type
ping 192.168.1.15 -s 113
this try to locate your card in network.
If you need a specific packet size you can use this command
ping 192.168.1.15 -s 113 -l size

Have I understood the details?
If yes post again

Bye
Antoniov

[Ron Kinner]

If you are still working on this try

ping 113

The -s option is not supported in HPUX and the size is just put right after the destination.

Ron