HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality
Server-Specific Information
Selectable Networking Drivers
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Selectable Networking Drivers
The following table lists drivers that are not automatically installed, but can be selected
during installation. For more details about changes to these drivers, see the remainder of
this section.
10GigEthr-00 (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
The 10GigEthr-00 bundle supplies the ixgbe driver, version B.11.23.06 for December
2005. The 10GigEthr-00 bundle supports the AB287A PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet card.
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet (ixgbe) driver is delivered as a selectable product in the
December 2005 update of HP-UX 11i v2.
Summary of Change
In the December 2005 HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet
driver supports two new functionalities:
• Port-based steering multiqueue
• TCP packet-reassembly in the driver
Table 4-2 Selectable Networking Drivers
a
Networking Driver
Bundle
Driver
Card
Number
Description
10GigEthr-00 ixgbe AB287A PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet card
ATM-00 atm2pci
atmpci
A5483A,
A5513A,
A5515A,
J3557A
PCI ATM cards
HyprFabrc-00 clicd A4919A
A4920A
A4921A
A6092A,
A6386A
PCI HyperFabric
HSC HyperFabric
HSC HyperFabric
PCI HyperFabric
TermIO-00 pci_mux0 J3592A,
A6748A
J3593A,
A6749A
PCI MUX (8-port)
PCI MUX (64-port)
TokenRing-00 pcitr A5783A,
A4930A
PCI Token Ring card
a. In addition to currently supported cards, the swlist report may contain the product numbers of
cards that have been “pre-enabled,” but have not been released yet.