HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes

Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
Always-Installed Networking Drivers
Chapter 7
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updated for June
2004
GigEther-01 (igelan driver) has been updated to incorporate defect fixes.
IEther-00 (iether driver) has been updated to incorporate defect fixes.
new for December
2003
The iether driver now supports two new Gigabit Ethernet cards: the A7011A is a PCI-X
2-Port 1000Base-SX (fiber-based) card; the A7012A is a PCI-X 2-Port 1000Base-T
(copper-based) card. If you have purchased either of these cards as a factory-installed
card, the driver and its patch dependency (PHNE_28923) will already be on your system.
If you are adding either of these cards to an existing system, please make sure you use
the December 2003 application media to install patch PHNE_28923 and the required
driver bundle (IEther-00).
In the December 2003 release of HP-UX 11i, the Gigabit Ethernet driver gelan
incorporates defect fixes listed in patch PHNE_28883.
In the December 2003 release of HP-UX 11i, the Gigabit Ethernet driver igelan
incorporates defect fixes listed in patch PHNE_29631.
In the December 2003 release of HP-UX 11i, the Gigabit Ethernet drivers are updated to
support various new systems and system upgrades including the rp4440, rp8620,
rp7420, and rx2600.
The A7012A card does not interoperate with older switches containing a BCM 5400 PHY
with a version earlier than C-5. The problem occurs when interfacing with the HP
Procurve Module J4115A; version J4115B fixes the problem.
To determine the number of allowable cards per system, the required driver, and the
associated software bundle for current Ethernet or combination cards, please see the
“HP-UX Ethernet and Combo Card System-Driver Matrix” under the “Networking and
Communications” area of http://docs.hp.com.
updated for
September 2003
With the September 2003 release, the Gigabit Ethernet driver igelan has been updated
to work with the copper and fiber versions of the PCI-X Combination 2-Gigabit Fibre
Channel and 1000Base-SX/T card (A9782A is fiber-based and A9784A is copper-based).
Beginning in September 2003, please check http://www.docs.hp.com for online Gigabit
Ethernet release notes and installation guide. The /opt/networkdocs directory of an
HP-UX system will no longer be updated.
On HP-UX 11i v1, the ioscan output will now show the 5 by 5 part number of core
(built-in) I/O cards.
Fixed a defect in transmitting NFS READ of 32 Kbytes over a link with a maximum
transmission unit of 576 bytes. This affected the A4924A, A4929A, and A4926A Gigabit
Ethernet cards on HP-UX 11.0.
NOTE For documentation about Gigabit Ethernet in previous releases of HP-UX 11i v1, see
HP-UX 11i September 2002 Release Notes, available at http://docs.hp.com.
Documentation
Information on Gigabit Ethernet drivers is available on http://docs.hp.com under the
“Networking and Communications” area and then under “Gigabit Ethernet.”