Configure a communications network in a TCP/IP network

This topic provides a high-level overview of the steps you take to set up a TCP/IP network.

1. Identify your iSeries™ server to the local network (the network that your iSeries server is directly connected to).
   1. Determine if a line description already exists.
   2. If a line description does not already exist, create one.
   3. Define a TCP/IP interface to give your iSeries server an IP address.
2. Define a TCP/IP route. This allows your iSeries server to communicate with servers on remote TCP/IP networks (networks that your iSeries server is not directly connected to).
3. Identify the names of the servers in your network.
   1. Build a local host table.
   2. Identify a remote name server.
4. Start TCP/IP.
5. Verify that TCP/IP works.