10GigEthr-01 (icxgbe) B.11.31.1209 Ethernet Driver Release Notes

1 10GigEthr-01 overview

The 10GigEthr-01 bundle contains the icxgbe driver, which supports the AD386A PCIe 10

Gigabit Ethernet Card.

For more information about the AD386A PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card and installation instructions,

see the AD386A PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card Overview document at the following location (in

the User guide section):

http://www.hp.com/go/10-gigabit-ethernet-docs

For more information about firmware requirements and how to obtain the latest firmware for your

product, see “Firmware requirements” (page 5).

2 Features

The icxgbe driver is a PCIe 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver.

Some of the main features provided by the icxgbe driver include:

• Receive and transmit flow control

• Transmit Checksum Offload (CKO) and TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) for IPv4

• Receive CKO for TCP, UPD, and IPv4

• Multiple receive and transmit queues

• Receive Side Scaling (RSS) with TCP and UDP

• TCP segment reassembly in driver

• Jumbo Frames

• Multicast and Promiscuous mode

• IPv6

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging and stripping in hardware

• Interrupt migration

• Interrupt coalescing

• Link handling

• DLKM

• APA aggregate mode

• APA failover mode (LAN Monitor)

• HP Serviceguard

• PCI OLRAD

• PCI Error handling and recovery

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM)

• vPars V6

• HP-UX LAN provider

• MIB and driver statistics

• Configurable using SMH or nwmgr

• nettl tracing/logging

1. Only LACP mode is supported with APA aggregation with 10GbE links. APA aggregate mode is not supported with

server blades over Virtual Connect interconnects. Virtual Connect does not support aggregates (trunks), LACP, or

otherwise on the downlinks side.

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