HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA) Release Notes HP-UX 11i *J4240-90032* Part number: J4240-90032 Edition: December 2005, E0512
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Table of Contents 1 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v1 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................5 Auto Port Aggregation.......................................................................................................................5 LAN Monitor.....................................................................................................................................5 What's in This Version..
List of Tables 1-1 Fixes in the HP APA B.11.11.20 Release..................................................................................................
1 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v1 This chapter provides information about the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11.20) May 2005 release of HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA) and LAN Monitor software. Announcement This release of HP APA now supports Proactive Failover Support (PFO) for LAN Monitor failover groups, TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload), and 64-bit statistics.
Known Problems with Switches • HP ProCurve Switches When disabling Cisco's Fast Ether Channel protocol on the HP 9000 server, the HP ProCurve switches block that particular port from further use. Corrective Action: In order to use the network physical port on the HP 9000 server, physically move the connection from the server to the switch to another non-Cisco Fast EtherChannel port on the switch.
HP has tested switches from the following vendors to work with HP APA: • 3Com Corebuilder and SuperStack • All Cisco Catalyst series • HP ProCurve • Foundry • Alteon NOTE Hot Standby and LAN Monitor modes are both supported with all switches; however, HP strongly recommends using LAN Monitor rather than Hot Standby mode.
Table 1-1 Fixes in the HP APA B.11.11.20 Release Defect ID Description CR: JAGaf24714 SR: 8606364059 The lanadmin -g command waits for user interaction. CR: JAGaf26035 SR: 8606365402 The APA startup script does not detect if the APA's kernel components are configured into the running kernel. CR: JAGae99833 SR: 8606338887 PFO: Need an option to switch the link before all links are down. CR: JAGaf12626 SR: 8606351821 Allow LACP to use a different System ID.
2 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 This chapter provides information about the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23.10) December 2005 release of HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA) and LAN Monitor software. Announcement This release of HP APA now supports the aggregation of eight physical ports into a link aggregate and IPv6 addressing for link aggregates and LAN Monitor failover groups.
Known Problems with Switches ▲ 3Com SuperStack II Switches To interoperate with the switch, disable the Trunk Control Message Protocol (TCMP) on all of the ports that are being used with HP Integrity servers. Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements This section describes the compatibility information and installation requirements for this release. First-time Installation For an initial HP APA installation, two files, hp_apaconf and hp_apaportconf are placed in /etc/rc.config.d.
HP has tested switches from the following vendors to work with HP APA: • 3Com Corebuilder and SuperStack • All Cisco Catalyst series • HP ProCurve • Foundry • Alteon NOTE Hot Standby and LAN Monitor modes are both supported with all switches; however, HP strongly recommends using LAN Monitor rather than Hot Standby mode.