HP-UX 11i March 2002 Release Notes

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supports auto-negotiation and auto-sensing. There is no 1000Base-T card for HSC

backplanes.

The HSC and PCI 1000Base-SX/9000 products provide the means for interfacing various

types of HP 9000 computers to a 1000Base-SX multimode ﬁber network.

It is recommended that your system have at least 128 megabytes of memory when using

this product.

The PCI Gigabit Ethernet cards are for use on:

• V2200, V2250, V2500, V2600, L1000, L2000, A180, N4000, and rp7400 servers

running the HP-UX 11i operating system, and

• B-, C-, and J-Class workstations running the HP-UX 10.20, 11.0, and HP-UX 11i

operating systems.

NOTE For information on doing online addition and replacement of Gigabit Ethernet cards,

refer to “Managing PCI Cards with OLAR” in the Conﬁguring HP-UX for Peripherals

manual.

The HSC card is for use on D-, K-, and R-Class servers running HP-UX 10.20, 11.0 and

HP-UX 11i, with the following exceptions:

• The A4925A HSC 1000Base-SX card is not supported on D210, D220, D230, D310,

D320, and D330 systems.

• The A4925A card is supported on the D250, D260, D270, D280, D350, D360, D370,

D380, D390, R380, and R390 systems.

Please check with your HP representative for a deﬁnitive list of HSC card-supported

systems.

Compatibility Issues

• The Gigabit Ethernet LAN software is for use with only the following protocols:

TCP/IP, ARPA, and NFS

• The HSC and PCI 1000Base-SX/9000 cards operate only at 1000 Mbps. They do not

interoperate with 100Base-FX cards.

• The PCI 1000Base-T card operates at 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps. Only full-duplex mode is

supported at 1000 Mbps. The PCI 1000Base-T card and link partner (for example, a

switch) must be set to autonegotiation to run at 1000Mbps.

• If using Jumbo Ethernet frames, ensure that all switches in the data path support

the Jumbo frame size and that both ends of the connection support Jumbo frames.

The 1000Base-T card supports Jumbo frames only at 1000 Mbps.

• On A180, B132, B132L, B160, B160L, B180, and B180L platforms running HP-UX

10.20, only one Gigabit Ethernet adapter is supported. (HP-UX 11.0 on these

workstations supports multiple adapters.)

• MC/ServiceGuard is not supported on A-180 servers running HP-UX 10.20.