Setting Up Source Routing Support for a Token-Ring Network

Installing Source Routing on the Server

Installing Source Routing on the Server

1Use the lanscan command to identify the Physical Point of Attachment (PPA) of the interface you wish to enable for Token Ring Source Routing.

# lanscan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hardware Station

Crd Hardware Net-Interface

NM

MAC

HP DLPI Mjr

Path

Address

In# State

NameUnit State

ID

Type

Support Num

8/20/5/1 0x08000995DEDD

0

UP

lan0

UP

4

ETHER

Yes

52

8/20/5/8 0x555555555555

1

UP

lan1

UP

5

802.5

Yes

102

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this example, the field labeled NM ID gives the PPA, which is 5, for the

Token Ring interface card at Hardware Path, 8/20/5/8, and which has Station

Address, 0x555555555555.

2Use the command

/opt/netware4/bin/nwcm -V nwnet grep ppa=5

to associate the PPA (in this case 5, from step 1) with the appropriate instance of the configuration parameter.

Each hardware interface has a set of configuration parameters identified with the prefix lan_ and a number between 1 and 15 to describe information such as external address number, frame type, PPA and the status of token ring source routing.

In this example, the output from this command gives: lan_2_ppa=5

Therefore, the prefix of lan_2 is combined with trsr_on to create the configuration parameter lan_2_trsr_on to describe the status of TRSR for this network, on or off.

3To TEST that TRSR is turned off for this interface use:

# /opt/netware4/bin/nwcm -t lan_2_trsr_on=on

and you should get the output:

lan_2_trsr_on=off

4To enable TRSR for this network use the command:

# /opt/netware4/bin/nwcm -s lan_2_trsr_on=on

and you should get the output:

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