Networks File - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

NETWORKS File

Figure 16 Sample NETWORKS File
The IP_address is a 4-byte address in standard dotted decimal notation. Each
byte is a decimal, hexadecimal, or octal value and is separated by a period.
Hexadecimal numbers must start with the character pair 0x or 0X; octal
numbers must start with 0.
The host_name is the name of the system associated with this IP address. The
name cannot contain a space, tab, pound sign (#), or end-of-line character.
Each hostname must be unique.
The alias is another name for the same system. Typically, this is a shorter
name. A single host can have from 1 to 10 aliases. For example, the host sales
could have the following address and aliases:
129.0.9.5 sales sa saleshost
The sample file SYS:\ETC\SAMPLES\HOSTS is included with the TCP/IP
software. When you are configuring TCP/IP for the first time, copy the sample
HOSTS file from SYS:\ETC\SAMPLES to SYS:\ETC. You then edit the
SYS:\ETC\HOSTS file. You can change your configuration at any time by
editing your existing SYS:\ETC\HOSTS file.
The SYS:\ETC\NETWORKS file contains information about the networks in
your internetwork. Each entry provides information about one network. An
entry cannot extend beyond one line.
file.
The NETWORKS file entry has the following format:
network_name network_number [/network_mask] [alias [...]]
Figure 16 shows a sample NETWORKS
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