FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes

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What’s in Version B.10.20.11

The following sections describe HP FDDI/9000 EISA products A3659A

for servers and B5502A for workstations for HP-UX B.10.20.11.

NOTE The HP FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter complies with FCC regulatory

standards. See the Installing and Administering FDDI/9000 EISA and

FDDI/9000 HSC manual (provided with the product) for the complete

FCC Regulatory Compliance statement.

Beneﬁts

The FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter is a high-performance FDDI networking

solution for HP servers and workstations. This adapter provides the

physical and data-link services as deﬁned by the ANSI X3T9.5

speciﬁcations for FDDI and is supported over the TCP/IP network

protocol stack.

Features

Using ﬁber optic media, the FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter offers a

back-to-back or single-attach connection via an FDDI concentrator, and a

dual-attach connection directly onto an FDDI dual-ring network. This

adapter also supports dual homing and high availability environments

using MC/ServiceGuard.

Fixes

Four patches have been incorporated into this version of FDDI/9000

EISA software. See the section “Patches and Fixes in this Version” for

more information.