GigEther-01 Release History (September 2008)

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HP-UX Gigabit Ethernet Driver
GigEther-01 Release History
Edition 4: September 2008
For further details on each driver version, please see the Release Notes
for the specific version (example, B.11.23.0606) available in the Archive
section under I/O Cards and Networking Software at
http://www.docs.hp.com.
Table 1 HP-UX Gigabit Ethernet Driver GigEther-01 Release History
Date
HP-UX
Version
and
Release
Type
igelan
Driver
Version
Features
Sept 2008 11.23 AR B.11.23.0809
-- Support to configure the gigabit interface to connect at
only 1000FD speed and to fail if the speed falls back to
100FD/100HD or 10FD/10HD.
-- Fix available for NIC LED issue on BL860C and
BL870C.
For more information, see the GigEther-01 (igelan) Gigabit
Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 of September
2008 Release Notes and GigEther-01 (igelan) Gigabit
Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 of September
2008 Release Notes.
-- Support accelerated virtual I/O (AVIO) to significantly
improve HPVM I/O performance. *
-- The nwmgr_igelan man page has been updated to reflect
the correct value of current MTU, that is, 3 bytes.*
-- Fix has been provided where cards supported by the
igelan driver on HP-UX 11i v3 could occasionally hang.*
* This feature is applicable only for B.11.31.0809.
11.31 AR B.11.31.0809
Dec 2007 11.23 OE B.11.23.0712
-- Supports the core networking of the HP-UX based
BL870c Server Blade.
-- Supports AVIO ( Accelerated Virtual IO) to improve
networking performance of the guest drivers in an HPVM
environment.
-- Defect fixes described in the GigEther-01 (igelan) Gigabit
Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 of December
2007 Release Notes.