EISA Token Ring Release Notes

EISA Token Ring Release Notes for HP-UX 11i

Patches and Fixes for this Version

The EISA Token Ring card is customer-installable and conﬁgurable on the B, C, and J-Class

workstations.

Patches and Fixes for this Version

Patch PHNE_17942:

• lanadmin reports card down when it is not.

A code change in the EISA Token Ring initialization function has ﬁxed this defect.

• Connecting the EISA Token Ring card causes a system crash.

The driver software has been changed to check for physically contiguous space returned by

MALLOC. MALLOC is re-tried up to 100 times to prevent a system hang. If this is

exceeded, the card is kept in the down state.

• ‘snmpwalk’ shows inconsistent values.

The driver software has been modiﬁed to call get_nmid() only once per instance.

• When an EISA Token Ring card is used with other Token Ring cards supporting

4500 MTU size, the network may hang.

The maximum MTU size for EISA Token Ring has been increased to 4500. The default

MTU is now set to 4170. The user may increase this up to 4500 using the lanadmin

command, if desired.

• SAM gives an error when conﬁguring the EISA Token Ring card.

The initialization script has been modiﬁed to use the correct syntax for the shell command.

• The “swverify(1M)” command will try to verify control scripts such as

“conﬁgure”, “verify”, “postinstall” and “checkinstall” for ownership and

permissions. Since these are control scripts, “swverify(1M)” should not perform

this check on them.

This defect has been ﬁxed.