Always-Installed Networking Drivers

This release includes changes to the following always-installed networking driver. “Always-installed” means that the driver is automatically installed during HP-UX installation.




	NOTE: The `HWEnable11i` bundle, which is normally installed by default on the 11i OE media, provides the patches that are required for the installation of these networking bundles. When updating an existing 11i system, you can install the `HWEnable11i` bundle and the desired networking bundle from the OE media in the same install session to meet software dependencies. In addition to currently supported cards, the swlist report may contain the product numbers of cards that have been “pre-enabled,” but have not been released yet.

IEther-00

The IEther-00 bundle delivers the iether driver which supports selected Gigabit Networking Cards.

Summary of Change

As of June 2007, the iether driver release enables PCI Express (PCIe) technology to support PCIe dual-port cards on HP-UX 11i v2.
New lanadmin option to enable writing VPD asset_tag on eeprom.
HP strongly recommends that the following four tunables not be changed from default values on any iether PCI-X cards. It has been found that certain combinations of these tunables (other than the default settings) could result in card hangs.
- send_max_bufs
- recv_mas_bufs
- send_coal_ticks
- recv_coal_ticks
HP will not be providing the option of changing these tunables for the new PCI-Express iether cards.

Impact

PCI Express (PCIe) technology is now enabled on HP-UX 11i v2 to support PCIe dual-port cards.

For the most up-to-date information on what is changed from one release to the next, see the IEther-00 driver’s release history. It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under 1000Base-T and 1000Base-SX (Gigabit Ethernet). For information about supported cards, see the HP-UX Ethernet Driver Support Matrix, available at the same location.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

Additional documentation is available on http://www.docs.hp.com (navigate to I/O Cards and Networking Software, then to 1000Base-T and 1000Base-SX (Gigabit Ethernet)). For information about supported cards, see the HP-UX Ethernet Driver Support Matrix, available at the same location.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.