How to start virtual ethernet adapter from ...

[strus]

Hi,
We have a P5 based machine with a vio server and a partition with vscsi and veth. The issue that the partition does't want
to boot. I started AIX from a CDrom, mounted the filesystem and I want to start TCP/IP on the virtual ethernet device defined on this partition to copy a remote file on my system.
THe problem is that en0 is not "defined" or "available"
with the lsdev command, it does not appear !!
How can I configure this device ?
Can somone give me the solution ?
Thanks.

 

[hfaix]

Did you define a virtual ethernet device in the profile of the client partition?

 

[CrystalWizard]

bring en0 up with
ifconfig en0 up
then type netstat -in to make sure you have an interface with correct ip's

 

[strus]

Here are some details:
hfaix, yes the virtual ethernet adpater is well defined on both server and client.(The partition was used just before the complete AIX re-install)
CrystalWizard, the issue is that the problem happens just after a complete re-install, so I have not yet defined the TCP/ip startup configuration.
In fact what I want to do is, start smitty and configure the tcpip but I cannot find the virtual en0 ...
In rescue mode, the TCPIP does not seems to be activated.
Another solution would be to bring up the USB interface to use an USB key instead of the network to transfer my file.
Does anybody knows how to define and use an USB port on a micro-partition ?

 

[strus]

OOOOOps ....
CrystalWizard your solution works fine !!!
Thanks a lot!!
Someone can however answer the question on the USB port.

 

[p5wizard]

The only USB devices supported by AIX that I'm aware of is (someone please correct me if I'm wrong):

CDROM-drive, diskette-drive, keyboard, mouse.

I tried a memory stick a while back, after cfgmgr AIX detected it as a USB CDROM storage device, but I wasn't able to read any files of it (AIX would not mount it as a FS)


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[strus]

I looked at this today, and I don't achieve to read the content of my USB key, I will try using dosxxx command ... but I am not sure of the result!