PCI FDDI Administrator's Guide

PCI FDDI

What’s Different in PCI FDDI

Chapter 140

What’s Different in PCI FDDI

• Optical Bypass Relay: The OBR control port is RJ-12; this adapter

uses SC connectors. The two 12-inch SC-MIC cable adapters

(A4700-67073) can be ordered with the card for connecting the PCI

FDDI card to a MIC device using MIC-to -MIC cables.

• New Driver: Both A3739A and A3739B use the software driver

fddi4, and the device ﬁles are: /dev/lanx. All FDDI drivers are

shipped on the HP-UX Application Release (AR) CD. They can also

be obtained from http://www.hp.com.

• LEDs: The PCI FDDI adapter has two LEDs (B and A ports). When

the driver is installed and the port(s) are connected to the network,

the LED displays should be a follows:

— Dual-Attach Station

B and A: continuous green (not ﬂashing).

— Single-Attach Station

The LED for the attach port: continuous green.

The LED for the unused port: ﬂashing green.

— Dual-homed topology

B: continuous green

A: alternating green/amber (standby)

• linkloop(1M): If you execute linkloop(1M) back to the local

interface’s own MAC address (linkloop(1M) to self), the local driver

will send a response. No hardware exercised.

• New Diagnostics Utility: Use the utility fddipciadmin to report

card, driver and network statistics. Refer to the fddipciadmin(1M)

and fddi (7) man pages.

• Logging: The PCI FDDI driver logs events using nettl (not syslog).

• New nettl entity: You can specify the entity PCI_FDDI when

enabling logging/tracing or as a netfmt ﬁlter.