AB545A PCI-X 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Card Overview

Product Overview

Driver Availability

• Supports vPars on HP Integrity and HP 9000 (PA-RISC-based) systems. Enables creation of additional

partitions per server.

• Card resident EFI driver V 3.0.03.

• Supports LAN Boot on HP Integrity systems running HP-UX 11i v2 and on select HP 9000 systems

running HP-UX 11i v1 or 11i v2.

• Supports Online/Offline Diagnostics.

• Supports Ignite-UX.

• IPv4 Checksum Offload for TCP (CKO).

• IPv4 TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO).

Operating Distance for 1000Base-T (Copper UTP): Up to 100 meters — Cat 5 and Cat 5E

Driver Availability

The 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet cards use the iether driver. The bundle name for this driver is IEther-00. The

first supported release of the HP-UX iether driver is as follows:

* for HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11): December 2004 media

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

To locate the iether driver on the web, go to http://www.hp.com/ and enter AB545A in the 'Search' field. On the

search results page, scroll down to find the HP-UX 11.23 4-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 the next

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