Local Network IP Addresses and Host Names

Collect the information listed in the following table to connect hosts to the LAN. Ask your network administrator for help, if necessary. This information is not needed for a stand-alone installation.

Local Area Network Information

Information Needed Your Information IP address1 and host name for each blade server client Domain name Type of name service and corresponding name server names and IP addresses—for example DNS and NIS (or NIS+) Subnet mask Gateway router IP address NFS server names and IP addresses Web server URL

¹Local IP addresses are not needed if they are assigned by a network DHCP server.

You might need the MAC (Ethernet) addresses of the local hosts to make name server database entries (see Netinstall Boot Device Map).

You can see the MAC address in the console output while booting the blade server. Also, you can find it on the barcode label on the node blade server (see Locate MAC Address on Blade Server).