10GigEthr-03 (iocxgbe) B.11.31.1111 Ethernet Driver Release Notes

1 10GigEthr-03 overview
1.1 Bundle description
The 10GigEthr-03 bundle contains the iocxgbe driver, which supports the following products:
PCIe 10 GbE CNA
mezzanine cards
PCIe 10 GbE CNA
card
PCIe 10 GbE / Fibre
Channel combination
cards
PCIe 10 GbE
mezzanine cardPCIe 10 GbE card
NC551mAT111AAT093ANC532mAT118A
NC553mAT094A
1.2 Terminology
When referring to CNA (Converged Network Adapter) technology, the following terms are used:
Adapter The CNA.
Device The adapter as a whole, or an HP-UX device.
Card The CNA, most often in reference to the hardware or to a
specific form factor (such as PCIe mezzanine).
Port The physical connection to the network. A CNA typically
has two physical connections; this configuration is often
described as “dual-ported.”
Function A PCIe function. Each function can be configured by HP-UX
as a single device: an FCoE device, or a LAN device. HP-UX
can configure a dual-ported CNA with as many as 8 PCIe
functions (four per port). As many as two of these functions
can be FCoE devices (one per port); the remainder are NIC
or LAN devices (up to three per port).
NIC (Network Interface Card) A function or device that is configured as a network or LAN
device.
1.3 CNA overview
The CNA is a PCIe device which can be configured by HP-UX as a number of LAN devices
depending on the system configuration. Most CNAs are dual-ported. Each port represents a single
wired connection to a piece of network hardware, as follows:
• In a Blade Virtual Connect environment, the CNA is configured in Flex-10 mode. Each port
is logically divided into as many as four individual devices, which share the total bandwidth
of the network connection. One of these individual devices on each port can be an FCoE
device.
• In other environments, the CNA is configured as two individual devices per port, one FCoE
and one LAN device, depending on the hardware configuration, both sharing the bandwidth
of the network connection.
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