Setting up networking on AIX 5.3 - help needed

I finally got AIX 5.3 installed on my RS/6000 7025 F50. It now boots
AIX 5.3 and I can log in via a serial port. But I want to network this
thing on my home network. Unlike AIX 5.2, where one gets asked a
series of questions such as

hostname
IP
subnet mask
router's IP address.
IP for DNS server

I got nothing. All I got was a login prompt. I typed "root" for a user
name, and it let me in without a password. But I'm rather stuck at
this point. On AIX 5.2, this seem to be taken care of. On Solaris one
gets asked questions. But for an AIX newbie, 5.3 is very unhelpful.

I basically want

hostname: aixbox
IP: 192.168.1.123
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
router's IP is 192.168.1.1
the router will do the DNS lookups.

I thought this might be configured for DHCP, but it if is, then it had
not got itself an IP address.

I'm tempted to install AIX 5.2 then upgrade it to 5.2 - at least AIX
5.2 held my hand a bit more!!

Are there any scripts I can run that can do this?

Dave

As root

smitty tcpip

or man mktcpip
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Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993
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I'm tempted to install AIX 5.2 then upgrade it to 5.2 - at least AIX

I mean I'm tempted to install AIX 5.2, set up the networking, which
was easy, then upgrade to AIX 5.3. But there must be a better way.
That is a hack.

Dave

Thank you Tony. I leave this to later today. It's 0035 here in the UK,
and a bit cold in the garage where the server is. But I'll look at
that tomorrow.

Dave

Thank you Tony. I now have it networked - I'm afraid to say I used
smit. I normally prefer command line tools, but I have less chance of
going wrong with smit.

Next I need to take a tape backup, then sort out the mirroring of
rootvg. I only put the root volume group on a 9 GB disk, as that the
only size where I have an identical disk I can use for mirroring.

David Kirkby schrieb:





"smitty" is character mode curses user interface similar to the Motif 
GUI of "smit". If you don't have X11 and Motif up and running, calling 
"smit" falls back to "smitty".
Menu structure and what you can do and what not is exactly the same.
Only difference is navigation with keyboard instead of mouse pointer.

-- 
ULi

I've supported AIX in one form or another since the mid90's and I still use
smit to set up or change the networking (and for almost nothing else).
-- 
Tony Evans
Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993
blog  ->  http://www.**--****.com/ 
books ->  http://www.**--****.com/ 
[ anything below this line wasn't written by me ]