ifconfig -a not working on HP-UX , why ?

[redhat7012]

Hi ,

Wont ifconfig -a work on HP-UX server ?

server version is :

HP-UX wlsms01 B.11.11 U 9000/800 3995265642 unlimited-user license

Is their any alternate command for this in HP-UX ?

regards,

aparna.

P.S. This thread has been moved from HP-UX > System Administration to HP-UX > networking - HP Forums Moderator

[Patrick Wallek]

No, 'ifconfig -a' does not work on HP-UX.  If you use ifconfig you must specify an interface to see its configuration.

# ifconfig lan0

If you just want to see ip addresses for all interfaces:

# netstat -in

[Duncan Edmonstone]

>> ifconfig -a not working on HP-UX , why ?

The question is "why should it?" Just because thats how a command behaves on "A N other" UNIX/Linux system, you should never assume thats how it will work on another flavour... that's what man pages are there for...

Anyway Patrick has already given you a way of getting the IP addresses bound to NICs - if you want more detail/something more like "ifconfig -a" would give you on Linux, then try:

lanscan -p | while read lan
do
ifconfig lan${lan}
done 2>/dev/null