topic Instance Number in Operating System - HP-UX

Instance Number

Emanuele De Angelis — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:36:55 GMT

Why to reassign a instance number of an interface?

Re: Instance Number

G. Vrijhoeven — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:43:11 GMT

Hi,

I am not sure what you mean but. If you use the insf command device files are created. The instance number ( in case of a disk) is the c

Gideon

Re: Instance Number

Hoefnix — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:47:39 GMT

Or do you mean that you like to rename an lan interface lan3 to lan0? I remember an application that would only work on lan0.

Regards,
Peter

Re: Instance Number

G. Vrijhoeven — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:51:56 GMT

Hi,

Instance nubers can be changed useing the ioinit command.

Gideon

Re: Instance Number

Emanuele De Angelis — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:53:37 GMT

Thanks to all.

Re: Instance Number

Elmar P. Kolkman — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:57:06 GMT

A good reason to change instance numbers is to copy the configuration of one server onto an other. It is easier if the cards have the same instance numbers on both machines. Sometimes the automatic assigning of those will give different numbers, for whatever reason, so you want to change them.

This can be done with ioinit (permanently) or ioscan (untill a reboot).