IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.1004 Ethernet Driver Release Notes

This document provides information about the April 2010 release of the IEther-00 bundle for
HP-UX 11i v3.
1 IEther-00 Overview
The IEther-00 bundle contains the iether version B.11.31.1004 driver, which supports the
following Gigabit Ethernet cards and combination cards:
PCI-X Combination
CardsPCI-X Ethernet Cards
PCie Combination
Cards
PCIe Ethernet
Mezzanine CardsPCIe Ethernet Cards
AB290A, AD193A,
AD194A
A7011A, A7012A,
AB545A, AD331A,
AD332A
AD221A, AD222A,
AD393A
NC360m, NC364mAD337A, AD338A,
AD339A
2 New and Changed Features in This Release
2.1 New Features
There are no new features included in IEther-00 at the time of this publication.
2.2 Changed Features
There are no changed features included in IEther-00 at the time of this publication.
3 Problems Fixed in This Version
Table 1 lists the problems fixed in this version of IEther-00.
Table 1 HP-UX 11i v3 April 2010 Fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1004
DescriptionSR Number
NULL pointer de-reference in iether driver function “iether_send_complete” causes a
“Data Key Miss Fault,” which causes a system crash.
QXCR1000993036
On HP Integrity servers with Intel Itanium 9300 Series processors, an FTP session hangs
when started over an iether interface with TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) enabled.
QXCR1001017903
Problems Fixed in Recent Versions
Table 2 HP-UX 11i v3 March 2010 Fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1003
DescriptionSR Number
For NICs with the Intel 82575 chip set, Fast link and Slow signals do not indicate the correct
speed.
QXCR1000873061
Double panic occurs when attempting to hold a lock which was already held in the Transfer
of Control (TOC) path.
QXCR1000973228
The iether driver is enhanced to support HP-UX Portable image.
QXCR1000951699
Memory corruption occurs with AD221A, AD222A & AD393A PCIe combination cards.
This problem occurs on the receive path, and might cause one or more of the following:
• Panic
• NFS Timeout
QXCR1000961036
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