Configuring a LAN Node
Configure an FDDI Network Interface
HP assigns the network portion (initial nine digits) of IP addresses from ARPA Class C, though your addresses may also be of Classes A or B. The complete formats are:
Class A nnn xxx.xxx.xxx
B nnn.nnn xxx.xxx
C nnn.nnn.nnn xxx
Where: nnn = the network portion of the IP address and
xxx= the node portion of the IP address.
For Class C, the node portion of the IP address must be between 001 and 254.
If you are adding your NS 3000/iX node to an existing network, the network portion of each node’s IP address should be the same. You will have to find out what this is, and use it in the network portion of the IP address of your NS 3000/iX node. Also, you will need to know the node portions of the IP addresses of each of the nodes (usually they will be numbered sequentially, such as 001, 002, and so on), so that you can specify a unique node portion for the IP address of your node. If you have a network map, it should provide a record of such items as the node name and IP address of each node. If there is no record, and if you want to find out each node’s IP address, you will have to issue the following command (NM capability required) on each of the nodes:
NETCONTROL NET=NIname;STATUS
One of the lines of output from this command tells you what the complete IP address is for that node; the last three digits are the unique node portion of the class C address.
IP subnet mask
An IP subnet mask is specified in the same format as an IP address. The
Link name
The link name can have up to eight alphanumeric characters and the first character must be alphabetic.
Physical path of device adapter
The physical path number corresponds to the slot location of a node’s FDDI device adapter. Recommended slot locations and physical path calculations vary
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