About This Manual

This manual describes how to configure and manage network interfaces and network transports, and solve network problems that might arise on systems running the Tru64 UNIX operating system software.

This manual assumes that the operating system software and the appropriate networking subsets are installed.

Audience

This manual is intended for system and network adminstrators responsible for configuring and managing network services. Administrators are expected to have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration. It is also helpful to have knowledge of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking concepts and network configuration; this manual is not a TCP/IP networking tutorial.

New and Changed Features

The Network Administration: Connections manual contains new and revised sections, including:

Organization

The Network Administration: Connections manual is divided into several chapters, each of which contains information about configuring a different connection or transport. The manual also includes appendixes that contain supplemental information.

The following list describes the content in more detail:

Chapter 1 Describes network administration and lists the components that this manual covers
Chapter 2 Describes the tasks to administer the basic network connections on Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) networks
Chapter 3 Describes the tasks to administer Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) networks
Chapter 4 Describes the tasks to administer Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Chapter 5 Describes the tasks to administer Mobile IPv6
Chapter 6 Describes the tasks to administer an Asychronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network connections
Chapter 7 Describes the tasks to administer the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Chapter 8 Describes the tasks to administer point-to-point connections
Chapter 9 Describes the tasks to administer Local Area Transport (LAT)
Chapter 10 Describes how to diagnose network problems
Chapter 11 Describes the various diagnostic tools available to help solve problems
Chapter 12 Describes how to report problems to HP and the information you need to provide
Appendix A Describes how to monitor the Ethernet, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), and token ring network interfaces by using the netstat command
Appendix B Describes IPsec error messages and provides possible explanations

Related Documents

For more information about Tru64 UNIX networking and communications, see the following books:

For more information on public-key cryptography, see Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, second edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996 by Bruce Schneier, ISBN 0-471-11709-9.

For more information on IPsec, see IPSec: The New Security Standard for the Internet, Intranets, and Virtual Private Networks, Prentice Hall, 1999 by Naganand Doraswamy and Dan Harkins, ISBN 0-13-011898-02.

Icons on Tru64 UNIX Printed Manuals

The printed version of the Tru64 UNIX documentation uses letter icons on the spines of the manuals to help specific audiences quickly find the manuals that meet their needs. (You can order the printed documentation from HP.) The following list describes this convention:

  G Manuals for general users
  S Manuals for system and network administrators
  P Manuals for programmers
  R Manuals for reference page users

Some manuals in the documentation help meet the needs of several audiences. For example, the information in some system manuals is also used by programmers. Keep this in mind when searching for information on specific topics.

The Documentation Overview provides information on all of the manuals in the Tru64 UNIX documentation set.

Reader's Comments

HP welcomes any comments and suggestions you have on this and other Tru64 UNIX manuals.

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The Tru64 UNIX Publications group cannot respond to system problems or technical support inquiries. Please address technical questions to your local system vendor or to the appropriate HP technical support office. Information provided with the software media explains how to send problem reports to HP.

Conventions

This document uses the following typographic conventions:

%
$

A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne, Korn, and POSIX shells.

#

A number sign represents the superuser prompt.

% cat

Boldface type in interactive examples indicates typed user input.

file

Italic (slanted) type indicates variable values, placeholders, and function argument names.

[ | ]
{ | }

In syntax definitions, brackets indicate items that are optional and braces indicate items that are required. Vertical bars separating items inside brackets or braces indicate that you choose one item from among those listed. 


colored text

In syntax definitions, literal elements are colored green. Variable values, placeholders, and function argument names are colored red. No special colored text is used outside of syntax descriptions.

. . .

In syntax definitions, a horizontal ellipsis indicates that the preceding item can be repeated one or more times.

cat(1)

A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, cat(1) indicates that you can find information on the cat command in Section 1 of the reference pages.

[Return]

In an example, a key name enclosed in a box indicates that you press that key.

[Ctrl/x]

This symbol indicates that you hold down the first named key while pressing the key or mouse button that follows the slash. In examples, this key combination is enclosed in a box (for example, [Ctrl/C] ).