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10GigEthr-00 (10 Gigabit Ethernet)

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The 10GigEthr-00 bundle supplies the ixgbe driver.

Summary of Change

In December 2007, HP-UX 11i v2 updates the 10GigEther-00 bundle to:

support a new PCI-X 266Mhz 10 Gigabit Ethernet network card AD385A.
support Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) to significantly improve HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM) I/O performance.

Impact

The AVIO lan driver will support the following Ethernet drivers: ixgbe (10GbE), igelan (1GbE), and iether (1GbE).

For information about Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO), see “Accelerated Virtual I/O”.

Compatibility

See “Accelerated Virtual I/O”.

Performance

The AVIO lan driver will support the following Ethernet drivers: ixgbe (10GbE), igelan (1GbE), and iether (1GbE).

Also see “Accelerated Virtual I/O”.

Documentation

For related 10 Gigabit Ethernet documents on the HP website, please see http://docs.hp.com (navigate to I/O Cards and Networking Software, then to 10 Gigabit Ethernet).
To see what’s changed from one release to the next, see the 10GigEther-00 driver’s release history. It is located on http://docs.hp.com (navigate to I/O Cards and Networking Software, then to 10 Gigabit Ethernet).
For the list of supported systems, please see the HP-UX Ethernet Driver Support Matrix located on http://docs.hp.com (navigate to I/O Cards and Networking Software, then to 10 Gigabit Ethernet).
For the online manual page, see nwmgr_ixgbe(1M).

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

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