HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes

Hardware-Specific Information
Always-Installed Networking Drivers
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For the most current information on supported I/O cards, see the set of Support Matrixes
available on the I/O Cards and Networking Software Web page at
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html. At the top of the page, click the link for the
card technology you are interested in, then scroll down to the Support Matrixes
heading. If a support matrix for your card technology is unavailable, check the card’s
user guide or release notes.
Always-Installed Networking Drivers
This release includes changes to the following always-installed networking driver.
“Always-installed” means that the driver is automatically installed during HP-UX
installation.
NOTE The HWEnable11i bundle, which is normally installed by default on the 11i OE media,
provides the patches that are required for the installation of these networking bundles.
When updating an existing 11i system, you can install the HWEnable11i bundle and the
desired networking bundle from the OE media in the same install session to meet
software dependencies.
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.
IEther-00
The IEther-00 bundle delivers the iether driver which supports selected Gigabit
Networking Cards.
Summary of Change
• As of June 2007, the iether driver release enables PCI Express (PCIe) technology to
support PCIe dual-port cards on HP-UX 11i v2.
•New lanadmin option to enable writing VPD asset_tag on eeprom.
• HP strongly recommends that the following four tunables not be changed from
default values on any iether PCI-X cards. It has been found that certain
combinations of these tunables (other than the default settings) could result in card
hangs.
— send_max_bufs
— recv_mas_bufs
— send_coal_ticks
— recv_coal_ticks
HP will not be providing the option of changing these tunables for the new
PCI-Express iether cards.