Not able to configure network card

[Steve Hamrick]

I have L3000-5x Hp server and while trying to configure Ip address to lan0 interface I am getting below error.

Error:

ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCSIFNETMASK): bad value

Please suggest

Note:This interface is used to take backups and earlier this interface was working fine.

[skt_skt]

could you let us know how do r u configuring it, the command? paste the output of netstat -in and lanscan

Looks like it is complaiing about the subnet mask..

[Torsten.]

"bad value" sounds like a bad value - double check this!

[Ralph Grothe]

Sounds to me as if you passed the ifconfig command an invalid netmask.
What did your command or script line look like?

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

try to review the current configuration using SAM:

SAM Areas:Networking and Communications -> Network Interface Cards

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Steve Hamrick]

In this server the same Ip was setup with same subnet mask 3 days back and was working.

After the server reboot the problem started all of a sudden.

I tried configuring thru SAM,ifconfig command and also thru netconf.

LANSCAN OUTPUT:

$ /usr/sbin/lanscan -q
0
5
9
100
102 101(3 4) 103(7 8)
104 2 6

$ /usr/sbin/lanscan
Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
0/0/0/0 0x00306E136614 0 UP lan0 snap0 1 ETHER Yes 119
0/10/0/0/7/0 0x00306E1BAD13 5 UP lan5 snap5 5 ETHER Yes 119
0/12/0/0/7/0 0x00306E2E6123 9 UP lan9 snap9 9 ETHER Yes 119
LinkAgg0 0x000000000000 100 DOWN lan100 snap100 11 ETHER Yes 119
LinkAgg2 0x00306E1BAD11 102 UP lan102 snap102 13 ETHER Yes 119
LinkAgg4 0x00306E1BAD10 104 UP lan104 snap104 15 ETHER Yes 119


NETSTAT OUTPUT:

$ netstat -nr
Routing tables
Dest/Netmask Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface Pmtu
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 4219 lo0 4136
152.135.174.45 152.135.174.45 UH 0 75537 lan104 4136
152.135.161.45 152.135.161.45 UH 0 20973 lan102 4136
152.135.174.32 152.135.174.45 U 2 0 lan104 1500
152.135.161.32 152.135.161.45 U 2 0 lan102 1500
127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 U 0 0 lo0 4136
default 152.135.161.33 UG 0 0 lan102 1500

[Marcel Burggraeve]

It might be the reboot you mentioned which is messing up things.
HP-UX does a check on illegal subnetmasks probably causing your error.
It's most likely that someone turned off that check in the past but after the reboot it's on again.

Turn it off temporary :
# ndd -set /dev/ip ip_check_subnet_addr 0

To make it permanent, edit
/etc/rc.config.d/nddconf :
TRANSPORT_NAME[0]=ip
NDD_NAME[0]=ip_check_subnet_addr
NDD_VALUE[0]=0