HP Integrity BL860c i2 User's & Service Manual page 86

You should see the following:
Tunable
3. The networking should be checked to make sure that the original system network instances
function correctly. If the HP-UX boot reports a LAN interface configuration failure, then check
the /etc/rc.log file for the failed instance number which may indicate something like the
following example:
ERROR:
"/sbin/rc2.d/S340net start" FAILED
Get the MAC address for the failed instance number from the pre-upgrade PI dump and look
for that MAC address in the post-upgrade PI state dump. From that entry, note the new instance
number and edit the HP-UX networking configuration for the failed instance number so that it
uses the new instance number.
86 Optional components
gio_portable_image
lan18 interface: ifconfig: no such interface
Value Expression
(before) 1 1
(now) 0 0
Changes
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