HP J3188A manual Configuring for Network Management, Using Novell NetWare IPX, Using IP

Managing the Hub

Managing the Hub

Console Command Reference

Configuring for Network Management

If the hub is to be managed from a network management station, it must use the same networking protocol as the network management station. You have these choices:

■Novell NetWare IPX

■IP

Using Novell NetWare IPX

The HP Hub-16M is designed to automatically use Novell NetWare’s IPX protocol. If you are using the hub on a Novell NetWare network, no configu- ration of the hub is required for it to communicate with a network management station that is also using the IPX protocol.

The hub determines its IPX address automatically from information received from a router or file server that is running IPX on the network, and from its own MAC address, physical address, or Ethernet address). See your Novell documentation for more information on IPX communications and addressing.

Using IP

You can use IP by using one of the following methods:

■using BOOTP by adding an entry for the hub in the BOOTP table on your BOOTP server, and enabling BOOTP through the hub’s console interface (this is the default setting)

■using the console interface to configure the IP parameters

BOOTP is covered in Appendix D, “Network Addressing.”

To use the console interface to configure the IP parameters, enter IP and the following text appears:

=>IP

Active IP parameters:

BOOTP protocol enabled: YES

Telnet access enabled: YES

IP address: 0.0.0.0

Subnet mask: 0.0.0.0

Default router: 0.0.0.0

Time to live: 64

Change IP configuration? (Y/[N]):

The following table explains the IP parameters.

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