traffic on nic card on hpux 11i

[Shivkumar]

Dear Sirs,

Suppose a hpux box has 2 physical nic. One card has 5 virtual interface and other card has 7 virtual interface configured.

My question is whether traffic is passed out of the machine through actual physical nic only and not through virtual interfaces of the nic ?

Please suggest.
Thanks,
Shiv

[Muthukumar_5]

you can check it as,

netstat -ian

it will give statistics about physical and as well as vitual interface.

while [[ 1 ]]
do
netstat -ian
sleep 2
clear
done

It will do it.

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

Virtual or physical, data flows only through physical card.

You can check it as follows.

lanadmin -g "nm_id_of_card"
netstat -in
netstat -ptcp
netstat -pudp

[Arunvijai_4]

# netstat -in
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
lan0 1500 172.23.150.0 172.23.150.132 694177 0 500940 0 0
lo0 4136 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 589 0 589 0 0

Also looking into lanadmin command should help you as well.

-Arun