disabling ethernet card

[sharif naser_1]

i have one fore atm card & one ethernet card on my hp700/735 machine . how can i disable the ethernet card because i want to install nnm6.1 on my hpux10.20 box .

any help is highly appreciated .

TIA
S.N.

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi Sharif,

The easiest is:

start 'sam'
go to 'Networking and Communications'
go to 'Network Interface cards'

Select your network card
Menu: Actions -> Disable

Best regards,

Dan

[Rob Mallard]

Or if you like command line

ifconfig lanx unplumb

where x is the card instance. You will have to use ifconfig to plumb it back and set the IP config if you want to use it again.

[rick jones]

probably best to go with SAM. the "ifconfig unplumb" will only work on HP-UX 11 and later, and the interface would come back again at the next reboot (assuming it was configured in the netconf file).

[Rob Mallard]

If you wished to disable the ethernet card permently wouldn't it be best to remove the driver from the kernel also?

[Rob Mallard]

Regarding "ifconfig unplumb" on 10.20:

I no longer have a 10.20 system available, but checking some of my old notes and 10.20 manual, it appears unplumb was a vaild option. Maybe someone could verify.

Thanks!

[rick jones]

one could remove the driver, though until drivers become DLKM entities it would mean yet another reboot when someone wanted an interface of that type again. also, removing the driver will disable _all_ interfaces of that type.

as for unplumb on 10.20, nope, there is no unplumb option, just the usual bsdish up,down,netmask,etc sorts of things. there is no "plumbing" to undo until HP-UX 11 when the stack becomes "streams-based" (well, 10.30 was also streams based, but 10.30 was not much more than a limited technology release).