HP3000

[7yoleven]

Hello,
I was wondering how I can find the subnet mask and default gateway of an HP3000. I have never worked on this system and would like to know. I do not need to change it but would help if I had the info. Thanks.

 

[Guy Lavoie]

Is this a HPUX system?

For many Unix machines, I've seen commands like "netstat -r" to see the routing table and gateways. A gateway will normally have a "G" in its flags.

For the netmask, try commands like "ifconfig net0" (net0 being the first network card).

I don't know if these commands work on a HP system however...

 

[7yoleven]

This is an HP3000/MPE machine. I can get the IP and subnet, but not the default. Those commands do not work

 

[Guy Lavoie]

One trick might be to try a traceroute command to see how it tries to reach a different address (if the system has the traceroute command). Try a command like this:

traceroute 192.168.0.1 (use an fictitious address that looks completely different from the system's own IP address). The first address you see in the list would be the default gateway.

 

[7yoleven]

Traceroute does not seem to work, even in a command prompt. Would it be a route command?

 

[Guy Lavoie]

The route command is normally used to set add, change or delete routes. The netstat -r command is usually used to display the routine table. It looks like HP isn't using these typical commands for IP routing. Try a search on the net...

 

[7yoleven]

Thanks for the information, appreciate it

 

[electron]

do you have access to the ifconfig command? Should give you all that info.

 

[roussell]

For HPUX, look at the /etc/gated.conf file at a prompt, type: cat /etc/gated.conf
The man page should give you an the info you want on the file: man gated
If your machine dosent have the man pages installed, you can look here: gated.conf information and here: Configuring the Internet Services Software

Hope this helps...

Terry

 

[djenkins6]

some useful links to get you started

http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/

Robelle are private company but links to all sorts of related stuff
http://www.robelle.com/support/hp3000.html

MPE Manuals at HP
http://docs.hp.com/en/mpeixall.html

once you have exhausted all the stuff at MPE level you can switch to Posix - as HP very nicely give you a complete unix system hidden underneath MPE
http://www.3k.com/index_faq06_12.html

you can do anything with a HP3000 - some legendary stories include throwing one off a building from 30ft up then keep using it, or burning the building around it and the blackened system 42 still running afterwards. The company needed a new office but their data was fine!

David