PCI Token Ring Administrator's Guide

Conﬁguring Token Ring

Conﬁguration Using SAM

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PPA number. The PPA number for DLPI is no longer equivalent to

the network management identiﬁer (nmid). The PPA number has

been changed to be the same as the card instance number.

Source routing. Token Ring source routing is no longer

enabled/disabled via lanconﬁg. The lanconﬁg command is not

supported in 10.30. Token Ring source routing is now

enabled/disabled via the lanadmin command with the rif/-rif options.

Impact. The PPA change will potentially have the greatest impact.

Applications that assume the nmid is the PPA number need to make

changes to use the card instance number instead. The other changes

only affect drivers that require support through Hewlett-Packard's

common DLPI implementation.

• lanscan

As of 10.30, LAN drivers do not maintain interface state. In 10.20,

lanscan displayed the interface state of each networking device. This

can no longer be done in 10.30. Therefore, the Network Interface

State ﬁeld has been removed. Instead, the netstat command can be

used to determine the state of the interface:

$ netstat -i

Name Mtu Network Address Lpkts Opkts

lo0 4136 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 128 164

lan0 1500 15.13.136.0 15.13.136.73 103838 20238

lan1* 1500 none none 0 0

The asterisk (*) after lan1 indicates that it is DOWN.

Until 10.20, lanscan displayed the interface unit number in the

Network Interface NameUnit ﬁeld. In 10.30, lanscan displays the

Physical Point of Attachment number (PPA#). This is the same as

the card instance number if the HP-supported common DLPI is used.

The driver-speciﬁc major number is replaced by the DLPI major

number in both normal and extended display. This number is the

same for HP drivers that use the HP-supported common DLPI. For

third party drivers and HP drivers that provide their own DLPI, this

need not be true. The ﬁeld, HP-DLPI Support, indicates whether the

HP-supported common DLPI is used.

Two new options have been added: -m is used to display the MAC

type and -p is used to display the PPA#. The -n option functions as it

did in 10.20.