Introduction Many people want to add routers to their networks. The HP3000 needs to be configured with information about where the routers are and what it can find on the other side of them. The terminology used on the HP3000 is sometimes confusing to users who are new to wide area networks. The HP3000 refers to routers as internet gateways. The LANs' area are usually in different cities or states.
Nodes are devices that have network interfaces.
Nodes include HP3000s, PCs, routers, servers, communication servers, and just about anything else that needs to communicate across the network. Each network interface has a unique IP Node Address. You can either set up a server that will assign the number for each device at boot-up or you can maintain a list and assign users from it. Some devices can have more than one IP Node Address. IP Networks are groups of nodes separated by routers.