nd(1M)

nd -- network adapter driver start/stop script

Synopsis

/etc/nd start [ interface ]

/etc/nd stop [ interface ]

/etc/nd restart [ interface ]

Description

The /etc/nd command is used to start or stop configured network adapter drivers. Configured network adapter drivers will start automatically at system startup time if /etc/nd is linked to /etc/rc2.d/S35dlpi. Similarly, configured network adapter drivers will stop automatically at system shutdown time if /etc/nd is linked to /etc/rc0.d/K97dlpi. See rc0(1M) and rc2(1M) for further information. The /etc/nd command accepts the following arguments:

start: to start network drivers
stop: to stop network drivers
restart: to restart network drivers after hardware failure
interface: the name of the driver to be started or stopped. The name is in the form netn-1, where n is the number of adapters configured in your system. Without this argument, /etc/nd starts or stops all configured drivers.

The /etc/nd command starts the dlpid daemon, which links an instance of the common DLPI module to each MDI driver instance. The startup of /etc/nd precedes the startup of network transport stacks and other higher-level protocols.

Warnings

Do not manually edit the network driver startup and shutdown scripts. Doing so may disable the drivers. Use the Network Configuration Manager to add and modify network adapter driver configuration.

References

mdi(7), dlpid(1M), rc0(1M), rc2(1M)
``Configuring LAN connections''