problem with ifconfig

[Leonard G]

Hi all,

I have a 'K' class machine that was given to me recently for installing OVO. As I am new to HP UX, i am having a problem regarding the ip address.
Whenever I typr 'ifconfig' or 'ifconfig lan0' , it is giving a message called

"ifconfig:Socket:Operation not Supported"

Could anyone please help me out with this.

Thanks in advance,
Leo

[Pete Randall]

Could you post the output of "ioscan -fnClan", please?


Pete

[Pete Randall]

And "lanscan", too.


Pete

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Check if your /tmp directory is full
/sbin/init.d/net.init created a small file in /tmp before it starts.

delete few files in /tmp and then try ifconfig

Goodluck,

-USA..

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Leo,

What is the rest of the command?
Are you just looking for current config or are you trying to set something?
Need more info.

Rgds,
Jeff

[HGN]

Hi

Do a lanscan and from the output do a ifconfig lanx (x is the PPA).

Rgds

HGN

[Leonard G]

Hi Pete,

Here is the output of ioscan -fnClan and lanscan.

I have attached the required document.
Regards
Leo

[Leonard G]

Hi uday,

The server doesnt have a /tmp mounted. It has got only / and /stand.
Is this is a problem.

Regards,
Leo.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar · Accepted solution]

/tmp is needed for many other stuff. Mount /tmp and run /sbin/init.d/net.init or just reboot.
Well, I am surprised to see just / and /stand mounted. Where are other essential directroies like /var /opt /usr etc?
Have you done the installation correctly?
What's the OS version you are working on ?

Beginning in HP-UX 11.23 the startup script will attempt to use
either /tmp or /var/tmp and will print an error message if the
temporary file cannot be created in either location.

-USA..

[Leonard G]

Hi Uday,

As I previously mentioned I got the server from some other team here. May be there was a separate disk array along with this server that had the /tmp /opt and the others mounted. The server has HP UX 11.11 installed. I better reinstall the OS then so that I get all the file systems.

Thanks a lot,
Leo.

[sysadm_1]

Hi Leonard,
This system may not have /tmp seperately mounted.If there is enough space in root and there is folder /tmp exists,then it will be fine.
Did you check "ifconfig lan1".since your lanscan does not show lan0.

cheers!!
sysadm

[Leonard G]

hi sysadm,

/tmp does exist in /.
i tried even ifconfig lan1, it is also throwing up the same error.

regards,
Leo

[Muthukumar_5]

What is the file system statitics? Is it full?

# bdf

ifconfig will create a temporary file in /tmp. If it is full then you will face this problem.

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Muthu

[Muthukumar_5]

Do like,

# sh -x /sbin/init.d/net.init stop
# sh -x /sbin/init.d/net.init start

what are you getting there?

Refer this thread as well:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=870504

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Muthu

[Leonard G]

Thanks all of you for your valuable help in the issue. I have tried out all your solutions, yet i am not able to solve this issue ...

This might be beacuse i dont have the disk array that was connected to the server pior to this or due to someother issue.

since this is not a producton server, I am going ahead with the re-installation of the OS itself.

Thanks opnce again,
regards,
Leo

[Leonard G]

This might be beacuse i dont have the disk array that was connected to the server pior to this or due to someother issue.

since this is not a producton server, I am going ahead with the re-installation of the OS itself.

thanks
Leo