HP OSI Transport Services/9000 Release Notes C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23 Edition 1 32070-90051 HP 9000 Networking E0403 Printed in: U.S.A. © Copyright 2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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Contents 1. HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 What’s New In this Version? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Introduction Introduction HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (OTS/9000) is the OSI networking stack of HP-UX. It provides functions of OSI Layers 3 (Network), 4 (Transport), 5 (Session), 6 (Presentation) and ACSE/ROSE over X.25, FDDI and IEEE802.3 LAN interfaces. It also provides RFC1006 that allows users to run OSI Services over TCP connections.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Audience Audience The following information is for version C.12.00 of HP OTS/9000. If you are considering updating to OTS/9000 version C.12.00 from OTS/9000 version C.09.03 for HP-UX 11.00, please read the release notes for version C.11.00 also. If you are considering updating to OTS/9000 version C.12.00 from OTS/9000 version C.08.00, please read the release notes for version C.09.03 and the release notes for version C.11.00.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) What’s New In this Version? What’s New In this Version? HP OSI Transport Services/9000 version C.12.00 contains the following new features and functionalities. Features HP OSI version C.12.00 provides the following features: 1. otsshownsaps When otsshownsaps is executed, it shows the list of NSAP configured on OTS. In addition, the new enhancement shows the following: a. State of NSAP, that is whether static or dynamic. b.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) What’s New In this Version? It is now possible to transfer expedited data on the RFC1006 subnet using the XTI API interface. The enhancement also allows user to send data as part of connect request. Depending on user requirements, this feauture can be enabled or disabled. 3. Support for HP-UX version 11.23. If you wish to upgrade to HP-UX version 11.23, you must also upgrade to HP OTS/9000 version C.12.00. 4.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Compatibility and Installation Requirements Compatibility and Installation Requirements Software Requirements • HP-UX 11.23 If you are currently running an older version of HP-UX, you must upgrade to HP-UX 11.23 before installing HP OSI Transport Services/9000 version C.12.00. • HP 9000 networking link products such as • HP LAN/9000 • HP FDDI/9000 • HP X.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Installation Instructions Installation Instructions The "Installing and Administering HP OTS/9000" manual (HP Part Number 32070-90030) contains complete instructions for installing this product. See that document for detailed instructions. A reboot is required for installing HP OTS/9000. The reboot is required to rebuild the HP-UX kernel with HP OTS/9000.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds 1. When MC/ServiceGuard initiates a local LAN switchover for HP OTS/9000 from one LAN card to another and then switches back to the first LAN card within 120 seconds, some operations to the first LAN card may fail. This is because previous LAN card information is still in the ESH table.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Known Problems and Workarounds Workaround : A workaround is to verify that the interface configured for use in OTS is currently the functional LAN interface, before restarting OTS.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version Fixes in this version HP OTS/9000 version C.12.00 incorporates several fixes as available via patch PHNE_17864 to be applied to OTS/9000 version C.11.00. The following section describes the new fixes available in PHNE_17864 and the additional fix in this version: 1. CR JAGad91302 2. Symptom osidiag dumps core when more than 4 lan entries are configured in the system.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version Resolution The RFC1006 layer has been modified to limit data accumulation to less than 64KB, therefore solving the problem. 3. CR JAGae18012 Symptom Configuring EMS (Event Monitoring Systems) to monitor OTS X.25 subnet fails. Defect Description When configuring EMS software to monitor X.25 Subnet, otsresmond is unable to get IP address. The problem is that call to gethostbyname() fails.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version Symptom The ftam responder application dies regularly under very heavy load because of call to ap_bind() fails. Defect Description With MP-safe OTS, APLI application fails in ap_bind(). Because of call to ap_bind() fails, the FTAM responder dies. This defect is same as JAGad29070. Since the fix is not properly incorporated in OTS C.09.03 version as the fix migrated from OTS C.11.00 version, the defect is re-occurring.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version Resolution The XAP library code has been modified to set the error value to AP_AGAIN ,if ap_bind() returns EAGAIN . Since AP_AGAIN is treated as a recoverable error ,applications will retry the ap_bind() call. 8. CR JAGab70710 Symptom 64 bit OTS libraries libapli,librose and libxap dump core in multi threaded environment.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version Resolution Code has been added to free the memory allocated at OTS startup, when OTS is stopped. 10. CR JAGad32322 Symptom Unnecessary debug print statements in rose API logs. Defect Description The rose library had some debug print statements, which were appearing in the log files when ROSE API TRACING is enabled. Resolution Unnecessary debug print statements have been removed. 11.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version 12. CR JAGad71962 Symptom Executing lsof command after OTS is started results in system panic. Defect Description OTS sets the write side qi_minfo to null for the ositmr device. Any kernel routine that attempts to dereference the fields of qi_minfo structure could crash the system. Resolution The "qi_minfo" field of the write side queue for the timer device is initialized with a valid structure. 13.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version Defect Description The problem is because the code was dereferencing a pointer which is freed. Resolution Code has been modified to NULL out the freed pointer when memory is freed and checks have been added for subsequent dereference of the pointer. 15. CR JAGad72644 Symptom With vmtrace corruption log ON,system panics in OsiFreeSeg() if LAN initialization fails.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version Symptom Applications linked with HP-UX 11.11 64bit OTS shared libraries libapli,librose and libxap dump core. Defect Description Any HP-UX 11.11 ots application, which are linked to 64-bit shared library, dumps core.It is because,the 64-bit shared library internal name does not have a valid library path. Resolution The file that sources environment variables has been updated to create libraries with the proper internal name.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version incorrect, resulting in the application seeing a different session version than what was proposed.When the application confirms the connection with this version,it does not match with what the kernel has in its structure.This causes an abort to be sent to the initiator of the connection. Resolution Code has been modified so that the kernel passes the correct session version to the user application. 20.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version ii)For the second case, code is modified to ensure that the PDU is not forwarded when the destination physical address points to the local system. 21. CR JAGad76367 Symptom On running ’osiconfchk’, after changing values for parameters in ’ots_subnets’ file which requires reboot, the following message is returned "Parameters in this file have been changed OTS is not in an updatable state.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version from the pool list is also removed,but this entry is not re-initialized again.This can result in bad usage of timer element. Resolution Code has been modified fo re-initializing the timer element again. 23. CR JAGae04819 Symptom PATH and MANPATH environment variables are not set for OTS product when OTS C.11.00 is installed. Defect Description On installing the OTS C.11.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version value is reset and the stack is re-started, the variable was not getting the updated value Resolution The code has been modified to reinitialize the variable after every connection request. 25. CR JAGae42578 Symptom otsexpdata doesn’t disable the support of expedited data transfer over RFC1006 subnet feature.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version connection request is incorrect. It disables the expedited data transfer option. Due to this improper encoding of the connection confirmation PDU, the expedited data transfer is not supported in RFC1006 subnet. Resolution The code has been changed such that the encoding of the connection confirmation PDU is correct. 27.
HP OSI Transport Services/9000 (C.12.00 for HP UX 11.23) Fixes in this version get the IS info, but will panic when getting element information as it is NULL.
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