GigEther-00, GigEther-01, and IEther-00 (Gigabit Ethernet)

The Gigabit Ethernet bundles supply three drivers. The bundle names are followed by the driver names in parentheses:

GigEther-00 (gelan)
GigEther-01 (igelan)
IEther-00 (iether)

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

The iether/igelan/gelan/btlan products are enhanced to add the following new features (except as noted):

Online deletion (OLD) allows removal of supported networking and I/O cards.
Module packaging. The kernel code is partially pre-linked in order to speed up kernel link times and improve runtime performance. The pre-linking can do some sophisticated code optimization. (Not applicable to btlan.)
PCI Error Handling and Recovery support.
64-bit management information base (MIB) statistics support. Directs the Data Link Service provider to return 64-bit statistics. (Not applicable to btlan.)
Security containment support. For details, please refer to the HP-UX 11i Security Containment Introduction in the HP-UX 11i Security Containment Administrator’s Guide. (See “Documentation” below.)
EMT support. Error Management Technology provides a quick, easy method of accessing error/cause/action information on all system errors.
Network Interfaces Configuration tool support for web-based networking configuration. This is a module within the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) tool that replaces the SAM tool.
nwmgr support and associated manpage. nwmgr is the command-line based tool for configuring networking.

LANProvider:

The LAN Provider product is new for customers migrating from the September 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v1. You can use WBEM-based clients to access the LAN Provider and collect information about the Ethernet links on your system. For details on the LAN Provider, see “HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces”.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

There are no impacts other than those previously described.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

See HP-UX 11i Security Containment Introduction in the HP-UX 11i Security Containment Administrator’s Guide, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/internet.html#Security%20Containment

Obsolescence

Not applicable.