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INSTALLING STREAMWARE TCP

For TCP/IP Operation

WIN TCP/IP has been replaced in AT&T Unix SVR4-3.xx.

The new product is called STREAMware TCP. (The package name is INET)

This document assumes that the network interface card has been properly installed and configured and that ILD and the relevant mac driver are also correctly installed.

Once you have installed INET then you will be prompted with the following questions :-

  1. Backing up existing files...........................done

Counting adapters...............

Initialled..........

Adapter 1 description: PCI DC21040 slot 44, type csma/cd (en0)

HOST:

NETWORK NAME:

IP ADDRESS:

SUBNET MASK:

FORMAT:Ethernet format (enet)

Enter the information as appropriate. This configuration is the same as WIN TCP/IP.

  1. Enter one line description of how to contact the system administrator

Default (1) Local System Administrator

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter one line description of the location of this machine

Default(1) Local Computer Centre

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter a community name (or enter a single "." to end)

Default(1) admin

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter the name of the host (or an IP number) for community

Default(1) 127.0.0.1

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter the community type

(1) read-only

Default(2) read-write

(3) traps

(4) help

Enter:2

Enter a community name (or single "." to end)

Default(1) public

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter the name of the host (or an IP number) for community

Default(1) 0.0.0.1

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter the community type

(1) read-only

Default(2) read-write

(3) traps

(4) help

Enter:2

Enter a community name (or enter a single "." to end)

Default(1) local

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter the name of the host (or an IP number) for community

Default(1) 127.0.0.1

(2) help

Enter:1

Enter the community type

(1) read-only

(2) read-write

(3) traps

(4) help

Enter:3

Use the defaults as shown above

  1. Domain Name Service (DNS) Configuration

DOMAIN TYPE: remote

DOMAIN NAME: (none)

NAMESERVER: (none) IP ADDRESS (none)

What type of DNS do you want to use?

1) none

2) local

3) remote

4) help

Enter: 1 for none

Routing configuration

DEFAULT ROUTE: (none)

IP ADDRESS: (none)

Enter the ip address of the remote host for default routing

(1) do not configure a default route

(2) help

Enter:1

Choose the library to be used for the name-to-address translation

Default (1) /usr/lib/tcpip.so #searches hosts file

(2) /usr/lib/resolv.so # uses DNS

(3) /usr/lib/nis.so # uses NIS

(4) help

Enter:1

This question will continue forever, to allow multiple library selection. We only need the hosts file consulted, so hit to finish.

Do you want to enable forwarding of IP datagrams between your attached networks

(1) yes # causes this machine to act as IP router

Default (2) no

(3) help

Enter:2

Do not configure a DNS service

  1. With this release you can automatically configure the networking daemons and their parameters, and turn on/off each of the services the Internet Daemon (inetd) listens for.

Do you want to customise the daemons for this machine?

(1) yes

Default (2) no

Enter:1

This is the end of the configuration. The system will go away to think for a moment and come back with the standard start up messages:

STREAMware TCP Network Shutdown

STREAMware TCP Network Shutdown complete

STREAMware TCP Network Initialization

Using System Definition File (SDF) to configure Network...

Starting network: slink in.snmpd

Starting services: inetd in.tlid....

STREAMware TCP Network Initialisation complete.

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