HP-UX 11i September 2005 Release Notes

Workstation- and Server-Specific Information
Always-Installed Networking Drivers
Chapter 4
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• Support of 1000FD mode of switches:
HP-UX 1000Base-T ports will support a link partner (switch or end-station) that is
operating in 1000FD fixed/manual mode. Please ensure that your setting is one of
the following supported configurations:
Impact
With the Gigabit Ethernet drivers updated for this release, CKO settings can be set to
what they used to be prior to this release by using the lanadmin -X command. The exact
lanadmin commands are as follows (note that the X is capitalized in these commands):
lanadmin -X send_cko_on < ppa >
lanadmin -X recv_cko_on < ppa >
Example settings for the iether driver:
The settings are preserved across reboots by setting both HP_IETHER_SEND_CKO and
HP_IETHER_RECV_CKO to ON or OFF in the /etc/rc.config.d/hpietherconf file.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
Installation guides for the AB545A, AB290A, and AB465A are at http://docs.hp.com
under “Networking and Communications.”
Details of the new options to support the CKO change can be obtained from the
lanadmin manpage.
Table 4-2 HP-UX 1000Base-T Supported Configurations
HP-UX 1000Base-T
Port
Link Partner Resulting Speed
AUTO AUTO Highest Common Speed (HP-UX
supports 10/100/1000)
AUTO 1000 FD
fixed/manual
1000 Mbit/s FD
10 HD 10 HD (for example,
a 10Base-T Hub)
10 Mbit/s HD
10 FD 10 FD 10 Mbit/s FD
100 HD 100 HD 100 Mbit/s HD
100 FD 100 FD 100 Mbit/s FD