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- BootNet commands
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-
-
- This section gives details of the * Commands provided by the BootNet module.
- These commands may help you in managing your network, and seeing how it is
- operating. To use the more esoteric commands you will need a more technical
- understanding of AUN than is in these files, particularly its use of
- Internet addressing. You'll find this information in volume 5 of the
- RISC OS 3 Programmer's Reference Manual.
-
- The list below summarises the commands:
-
- Command Summary
- ------- -------
- *Configure BootNet Sets the configured state for whether or not the AUN
- software is loaded from ROM
- *NetMap Displays the current AUN map table
- *NetProbe Reports if a remote station is accessible and active
- *NetStat Displays the current status of any network
- interface(s) configured for AUN
- *Networks Displays the current AUN routing table
- *SetStation Sets a station's number
-
-
- Command syntax
- ==============
-
- Special symbols are used when defining the syntax for commands:
-
- * Angle brackets indicate that you must substitute an actual value. For
- example, <filename> means that you must supply an actual filename.
-
- * Braces indicate that the item enclosed is optional. For example, [K] shows
- that you may omit the letter 'K'.
-
- * A bar indicates an option. For example 0|1 means that you must supply the
- value 0 or 1.
-
-
- * Commands
- ==========
-
-
- *Configure BootNet
- ==================
-
- Sets the configured state for whether or not the AUN software is loaded from
- ROM
-
- Syntax
- ------
- *Configure BootNet On|Off
-
- Use
- ---
- *Configure BootNet sets the configured state for whether or not the AUN
- software is to be loaded from a network interface's ROM or from RISC OS.
- Drivers are always loaded from the network interface, irrespective of this
- configured setting.
-
- You should configure this value to 'On' if the station is to be a client
- station using an AUN-configured network, and to 'Off' otherwise (i.e. if the
- station is to be a gateway station, or to be connected to a
- TCP/IP-configured network).
-
- The default state is 'Off'.
-
- Example
- -------
- *Configure BootNet On
-
- Related commands
- ----------------
- None
-
-
- *NetMap
- =======
-
- Displays the current AUN map table
-
- Syntax
- ------
- *NetMap [<net_number>]
-
- Parameters
- ----------
- <net_number> net number for which to display the map
-
- Use
- ---
- *NetMap displays the current AUN map table either for the specified net, or
- for all nets if no parameter is specified. The map table shows the net
- number of each net, its name, and its Internet address.
-
- Each station obtains the information held in the map table from a gateway's
- Map file. Since this file is identical for all gateways on a correctly set
- up network, the output from this command is the same for all stations, and
- only varies when the network's layout is altered.
-
- Examples
- --------
- *NetMap 129
- 129 science 1.3.129.x
-
- *NetMap
- 1 compsciA 1.1.1.x
- 2 compsciA 1.1.2.x
- 3 compsciA 1.1.3.x
- 128 compsciB 1.2.128.x
- 129 science 1.3.129.x
- 4 art 1.4.4.x
- 130 business 1.5.130.x
- 131 backbone 1.6.131.x
-
- Related commands
- ----------------
- *Networks
-
-
- *NetProbe
- =========
-
- Reports if a remote station is accessible and active
-
- Syntax
- ------
- *NetProbe <net_number>.<station_number>
-
- Parameters
- ----------
- <net_number> remote station's net number
-
- <station_number> remote station's station number
-
- Use
- ---
- *NetProbe reports if a remote station is accessible and active, and hence
- can be reached from the local station and network. This command does so by
- sending a control message to the specified station and awaiting a reply.
-
- Examples
- --------
- *NetProbe 128.135
- Station present
-
- *NetProbe 128.201
- Station not present
-
- Related commands
- ----------------
- None
-
-
- *NetStat
- ========
-
- Displays the current status of any network interface(s) configured
- for AUN
-
- Syntax
- ------
- *NetStat [a]
-
- Parameters
- ----------
- a give all information, rather than simplified version
-
- Use
- ---
- *NetStat displays the current status of any network interface(s)
- configured for AUN. The optional parameter a gives extra information,
- including traffic counters and full IP addresses. Known network numbers
- which are marked with an asterisk ('*') represent nets in a directly
- connected Econet network.
-
- Example
- -------
- *NetStat a
-
- Native Econet 0.5 information for native Econet
-
- Interface EconetA information for first AUN interface
-
- AUN Station 4.5
-
- Full address 1.4.4.5
-
- Interface Ether2 information for second AUN interface
-
- AUN Station 131.5
-
- Full address 1.6.131.5
-
- Known nets 1 2 3 *4 128 129 130
- 131
- information below only given if
- optional parameter a supplied
-
- TX stats Data=0, Immediate=2, Imm_Reply=0, Retry=0
- Error=20, Data_Ack=5, Data_Rej=0, Broadcast=10
- (local=0, global=5)
-
- RX stats Data=5, Immediate=0, Broadcast=0, Discard=0
- Retry=0, Error=0, Data_Ack=0, Data_Rej=0
- Imm_Reply=2, Reply_Rej=0
-
- Module status 0140
-
- Related commands
- ----------------
- None
-
-
- *Networks
- =========
-
- Displays the current AUN routing table
-
- Syntax
- ------
- *Networks
-
- Use
- ---
- *Networks displays the current AUN routing table. This shows the names of
- any local networks (i.e. those to which the station is directly connected).
- It also shows the names of those remote networks that the station knows how
- to reach, and the gateway that it will use to do so
-
- The AUN routing table alters as gateways start up and shut down, and so the
- information returned by this command varies as the state of the network
- alters.
-
- Examples
- --------
- *Networks
- a client on the 'backbone'
- art gateway=131.5 connected to the 'art' net
- by backbone local gateway 131.5
-
- *Networks
- a gateway between the 'art'
- art local net and the 'backbone' net
- backbone local (i.e. station 131.5 above)
-
- Related commands
- ----------------
- *NetMap
-
-
- *SetStation
- ===========
-
- Sets a station's number
-
- Syntax
- ------
- *SetStation [<station_number>]
-
- Parameters
- ----------
- <station_number> a station number in the range 2 - 254
-
- Use
- ---
- *SetStation sets a station's number, storing it in CMOS RAM so it is not
- lost when the computer is switched off. If no number is specified then one
- is prompted for. If the new station number given is invalid, then the
- current station number is preserved.
-
- This command is not a part of the supplied software, to prevent users from
- altering station numbers. It is instead supplied as a separate program on
- the Support disc of the Level 4 FileServer distribution, in the ArthurLib
- directory. You can run this program from the desktop by double-clicking on
- its icon; a window shows the prompt for the station number.
-
- The number is stored in the same location as is used by Econet to store
- station numbers. If the station is connected to both an AUN network and a
- native Econet, it will accordingly use the same station number for both
- types of network. Altering the station number for one network will alter it
- for the other.
-
- You can find out a station's current station number by typing at a command
- line:
-
- *Help Station if Econet is fitted
-
- or:
-
- *NetStat if AUN is installed
-
- Examples
- --------
- *SetStation 20
-
- *SetStation
- New station number: 20
-
- Related commands
- ----------------
- *Help Station
-