This book is for AIX system administrators who maintain the system's network connections. Communications and Networks is necessary. This book is intended for system administrators who perform system management tasks that involve communication within a network. Each chapter provides overview, installation and configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and reference information in roughly that order.
Procedural information is located near the relevant conceptual information for easier access.
Italics Identifies parameters whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the user. Monospace Identifies examples of specific data values, examples of text similar to what you might see displayed, examples of portions of program code similar to what you might write as a programmer, messages from the system, or information you should actually type. ISO 9000 ISO 9000 registered quality systems were used in the development and manufacturing of this product. Many new interfaces, and some current ones, have been added or enhanced to meet this specification. AIX 4.3 is even more open and portable for applications.