FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes

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FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes
Patches and Fixes in Version B.11.00.07
3. lanadmin displays Operation
Status as “down(2)” even if the
interface is up.
3. The driver was not updating the
operation status field in its data
structure after the initialization was
complete. As a result, incorrect status
was displayed by the lanadmin(1M)
command.
4. System hangs under heavy network
traffic over EISA FDDI.
4. Under heavy network load, the
driver fails t enqueue packets due t
lack of transmit descriptors. In such a
condition the driver is supposed to free
the buffers associated with the packet.
This was not being done. As a result,
kernel runs out of memory leading to a
system hang.
Table 1-6 PHNE_15667
Symptom Defect
1. The EISA FDDI interface may hang
after logging the message “Waited
for stat2_ine4 but it
never came” to syslog.
1. A software reset mechanism was
introduced in the EISA FDDI driver to
work around the hardware defects in
the Motorola FDDI System Interface
(FSI) chip. This mechanism did not
detect all the circumstances under
which the card had t be reset.
2. When an attempt is made to change
the MAC address of the card using
lanadmin(1M), the link is unusable
for up to 10 seconds and the MAC
address remains unchanged.
2. The MAC address of the card cannot
be changed. Users were not prevented
from attempting to do this.
3. Under certain conditions, too many
informative driver messages are logged
to syslog, causing it to overflow.
3. SMT and other informative
messages were incorrectly sent to
syslog instead of the NetTL log.
Table 1-5 PHNE_16503 (Continued)
Symptom Defect