Cofiguring Ethernet on AIX

[Vivian2002]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert my AIX v4 box(PowerPC)from Token Ring to ethernet. I've tried using SMIT, but am running into a problem. I can't ping the default gateway or the static ip of the box. Tried enabling ent1 and en0. I can say that I don't know much about AIX and I was kinda guessing my way through it. I would like to stay with a static IP but will now even be willing to change the settings for DHCP. Can anyway suggest what I need to like for files, setting, etc on the OS to set up my setting correctly for ehternet or dhcp connections...or a website/book that could help me. I would need something every basic -easy to understand.

Thank You,

Vivian

 

[nick2004]

- How many ethernet adapters can you see?
run lsdev -Cc adapter | egrep "ent|tok"
You should see only ent0 if you have only one
Do you still have the Token ring adapter in your machine?

 

[stubbint]

Can you post the output from the following commands:
netstat -in
netstat -rn
ifconfig -a

 

[Yegolev]

the simple things to go through are `smit ethernet` -> Adapter -> Change/Show, etc. Make sure you are not auto-negotiate and match your switch speed. next `smit tcpip` -> Minimum Config, etc. make sure your ip/gateway and so forth are right. finally make sure your route table is correct, `netstat -r` or `netstat -rn` if you want to see IP addresses instead of names.

good luck IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation

 

[Vivian2002]

Nick --I see 3 listed...when I ran the command you suggested.

pmc0 --Power Management Controller
ent0 --IBM PCI Ethernet Adaptor
tok0 --IBM PCI Tokenring Adapter

that's my problem though, huh? No en0.

Vivian