NonStop Networking Overview

• LAN Configuration and Management Manual
• LAN Configuration and Management Manual
• Spooler FASTP Network Print Processes Manual
• TCP/IP Configuration and Management Manual
• TCP/IPv6 Configuration and Management Manual
• Telserv Manual
Selecting Your TCP/IP Product
HP recommends using NonStop TCP/IPv6 or CIP for your TCP/IP needs because of the superior
processing power of the parallel architecture that underlies these products. (See Integrity NonStop
System Networking Compared to NonStop S-Series Server Networking (page 14), the TCP/IPv6
Configuration and Management Manual, and the Cluster I/O Protocols (CIP) Configuration and
Management Manual.) Because you can use NonStop TCP/IPv6 and CIP for IPv6 communications
(see IPv6 (page 28)) you can use these products to gain the benefits of the architecture without
implementing IPv6 communications in your environment. If you want to use IPv6 communications,
you must use NonStop TCP/IPv6 or CIP.
To use any data communication protocols other than Ethernet or X.25, you must use NonStop
TCP/IP instead of NonStop TCP/IPv6 or CIP. NonStop TCP/IP provides access to these:
• Token Ring
• ATM
Migrating From a Platform Other Than a NonStop Server
If you are migrating to the Integrity NonStop system from another platform and do not have NonStop
S-series systems in your environment, your networking options will be restricted to Gigabit Ethernet
and you should plan to migrate your applications to run over TCP/IP, ServerNet WAN, or CLIM
connections.
If you are migrating to the Integrity Nonstop NS-series system from the NonStop S-series system,
you can retain most of your existing networking solutions, including token ring and ATM, but you
will not be able to use IPX/SPX or ServerNet/FX directly. (However, ServerNet/FX can provide
inter connectivity between NonStop S-series systems and NonStop K-series systems in an environment
that includes Integrity NonStop systems. See Figure 3 (page 12).) If you are going to use token
ring or ATM, you can run your applications on the Integrity NonStop NS-series system and manage
the subsystems for each of those protocols on the Integrity NonStop NS-series system as well. You
do not need to do anything to your applications to make them run on the Integrity NonStop NS-series
system but your hardware must include a connection from the IOAM to the NonStop S-series I/O
enclosure.
The option of attaching to the NonStop S-series I/O enclosure is only available for NonStop
BladeSystems for the 6763 Common Communication ServerNet Adapter (CCSA-2). This support
was added to provide the SS7 functionality only available through the CCSA.
If you are using NonStop TCP/IPv6 and want to tune it by configuring the QIO subsystem to run
in the global privileged space, you can take advantage of the Integrity NonStop system’s increase
of this memory location to 256 MB. See the QIO Configuration and Management Manual for
information about how and when to make this adjustment.
Internet Application Product Documentation
You can find general information about the products listed in Table 3 in the Introduction to
Networking for HP NonStop S-Series Servers.
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