A7011A & A7012A PCI-X 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet Card Overview

Features

Driver Availability

The Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet cards use the iether driver. The bundle name for this driver is IEther-00.

* for HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11): December 2003 media

* for HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23): March 2004 media or http://www.hp.com/

To locate the iether driver on the web, go to http://www.hp.com/ and enter A7011A or A7012A in the 'Search'

field. On the search results page, scroll down to find the HP-UX 11.23 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Driver

(iether).

Verifying the LAN installation

• Verify that the LAN connector’s Link LED is steadily on (this means the card and driver are installed

successfully).

• Obtain the PPA number and the station address of each card by using the lanscan command. The MAC

address labelled on each card refers to LAN port A. Add 0x1(Hex) to obtain the MAC address for LAN port

• To verify link-level connectivity with a remote system, enter:

$ linkloop -i PPA_number remote_station_address

Note: when you use linkloop, ensure that the remote system is on the same subnet and is an

HP-UX-based system.

• To verify IP-level connectivity with a remote system, enter:

$ping Remote_IP_Address

and

netstat -in

When you use netstat -in, the output values Ipkts and Opkts should be incrementing.

• Installation is complete when you have successfully run linkloop, ping and netstat. To configure

remote systems, see the Ethernet Support Guide available on the web at http://docs.hp.com. Do this step

only if remote systems have not been previously configured.

• Optionally, if you want to verify that the iether driver appears for each installed card, enter: ioscan

-fknClan

The ioscan output for each port would look something like the following:

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description

lan 3 1/0/2/1/0/6/0 iether CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A7012-60001 PCI/PCI-X 2-port

1000B-T Adapter

The last two digits of the hardware path (third column) reflect the path of each port -- in the sample

output shown, the “0” indicates LAN A (as shown in Figure 1). Both ports need to show as CLAIMED here.