topic Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID in Operating System - HP-UX

How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Olin Byrd, III — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:00:23 GMT

My LAN ID was set incorrectly, what mode do I need to be in to reconfigure it to the correct value?

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Andreas Voss — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:03:29 GMT

Hi,

when i'm right you mean you have entered the wrong IP-address/gateway. To correct this use the command:
/sbin/set_parms ip_address
and further:
/sbin/set_parms addl_network

Regards

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Olin Byrd, III — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:17:53 GMT

The motherboard was replaced and the wrong LAN ID was assigned.

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Andreas Voss — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:21:44 GMT

Hi,

i'm not sure (depends on what LAN interface you have) but in the file:
/etc/rc.config.d/hpetherconf
you can set the mac address with:
HP_ETHER_STATION_ADDRESS[0]=0xXXXXXXXXXXXX

Regards

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Andreas Voss — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:24:07 GMT

Sorry the submit button goes crazy ...

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Victor BERRIDGE — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:24:54 GMT

Well theres always:
ifconfig lan0 inet `hostname`netmask 255.XXX.XXX.<0>
...
The best is to do a lanscan:
the output should look like:
Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
8/16/6 0x080009D2CA13 1 UP lan1 snap1 1 ETHER Yes 119
8/4/1/0 0x0060B0F9BA85 0 UP lan0 snap0 2 ETHER Yes 119

But I agree with Andreas the best is to use set_parms...

Hope it helps
Victor

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Larry Basford — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:43:30 GMT

If you are talking about a desktop motherboard replacement the hardware address can only be reset by HP. If you type it in when it boots and it's wrong you need to send it back to be cleared.

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:49:31 GMT

Hi:
you can use the lanadmin command (do a man on lanadmin) to set the lanID on the fly, however, it is best to set it in the corresponding rc.config.d file (this depends on the type of card you are using)

use lanscan to find out the nmid (or PPA in HPUX 11.0) which is required by lanadmin.

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Makis Nikolaidis — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:40:05 GMT

Ok, I order to change the LAN ID of your card permamently you need to do two things.
First run "lanscan" command in order to ivestigate the PPA (or NMID) number of your card.
Secondly, as soon as you find out what is the PPA number, you need to actualy change the LAN address by issuing the command, " lanadmin -a -A .

In this case no matter what happens you will always have the LAN ID that you want.

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Berlene Herren — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:41:11 GMT

If you want to switch lan instance numbers around, try this:In order to switch the instance of lan0 and lan1:

HW Address Net-Interface Name MAC type
56.1 lan0 ether
8 lan1 ether
1) create file called /tmp/hp. Now put in new instances that you want:
8 lan 0 <---where 8 is hw address of card & word LAN MUST be
there. 0 is NEW instance number.
56.1 lan 1 <---where 56.1 is hw address of card & word LAN MUST be there.

1 is NEW instance number.

2) do a: ioinit -f /tmp/hp
3) then reboot
4) do a lanscan to verify new names now are correct.
5) then cd /dev
6) do a: insf -e
7) do a: lssf /dev/lan* look for correct devices files & instances
8) then modify netconf & make sure ip's are going to correct card
9) Reboot again

Berlene

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Olin Byrd, III — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:07:01 GMT

Thanks for all of your responses.

The network is configured and functioning properly but as Larry sumized I am trying to change the value of the LAN ID that was assigned by a service engineer after the motherboard replacement. There is a "ssupdate" command that I should be able to use, I think.

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Bob Bell_1 — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:58:46 GMT

Correct me if I am wrong. I am under the impression that only HP can do this. Because of Software to Hardware liscensing issues. A package maybe sold at X dollars to run on Y machine, and mapped to this specific ID. The act of upgrading this machine to Z level may in fact increase the cost of X.. Or, of reinstalling the package on a wholly different box. Again, I am thinking that on HP can set this straight for you. Then again, only HP was supposed to have SSCONFIG for upgrading 800 to 9x9 machines..

Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Jayapal AP — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:06:45 GMT

Hello,

For configuring the LAN ID Do the following steps
STEP 1) Get into root user by using

$ su root
#set_parms ip_address
#set_parms addl_netwrk
STEP 2) After configuring the LAN ID. reboot the station or U can try one more option which will normally reset the LAN interface parameters without reboot. i.e
in Command prompt type following command
#landiag
U will find an menu driven options then type
"l" (that is small "L")
after this type "r". this will resets the parameter and then it will come back to enter command prompt. Then type "q". it will brings U to # prompt.

Then try your lan connectivity. hope it will work.

good luck

Jayapal

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Re: How do I reconfigure the LAN ID

Olin Byrd, III — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:55:46 GMT

Can anyone email me at olin@3bow.com and tell me how to use SSUPDATE?