[SC.LUG] Unix Network configuration help please!

[Neil Lucock]

On Sunday 12 Oct 2003 6:32 pm, you wrote:
> We've got a couple of HP-UX machines, their networking is a little odd,
> but you should be able to type:
>
> ifconfig lan0
>
> and get something like this in response:
> lan0: flags=843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
>          inet 10.0.0.128 netmask ff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255

I get practically the same, the second line reads 10.0.0.9 and the netmask is 
ff000000, broadcast 255.255.255.255

> something like this command should get you running:
>
> ifconfig lan0 address 10.0.0.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
>
> this should get you on your lan, assuming .9 is free.

I tried that, but I get an error;
	ifconfig: no such interface
Does HP-UX need some other parameter in the command? I know HP-UX doesn't do 
ifconfig -a
thanks for the suggestion,
Neil