IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.1109.01 Ethernet Driver Release Notes
1 IEther-00 overview
The IEther-00 bundle contains the iether version B.11.31.1109.01 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 HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1109.01
DescriptionSR number
When a VNIC is configured using AVIO LAN, the HPVM guest is not accessible after the
guest online migration.
QXCR1001130168
When a guest VNIC is created over the iether interface, a synchronization issue in the
receive path between the host freeing used buffers and the guest shutting down causes the
HPVM host to panic.
QXCR1001132541
Problems fixed in recent versions
Table 2 HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1109
DescriptionSR number
When the iether module is loaded and unloaded continuously, a card might be left in an
unclaimed state with an error log message.
QXCR1001116167
When a guest VNIC is created over the iether interface, a synchronization issue in the
transmit path between the host freeing used buffers and the guest shutting down causes the
HPVM host to panic.
QXCR1001087501
Table 3 HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1103
DescriptionSR number
When heavy traffic is run on a NIC with the Intel 82546 chipset with TSO enabled, an MCA
occurs. The problem is due to known errata with NICs with this chipset. This problem occurs
QXCR1001043759
with IEther-00 version B.11.31.0909. Affected products are AB352A, AB290A, AB545A,
A7011A, A7012A.
When traffic is run on a NIC with the Intel 82575 chipset with TSO enabled, a system panic
occurs with "iether_post_tdesc_tso" function on top of the stack trace. This problem occurs
with IEther-00 version B.11.31.1003. Affected products are AD221A, AD222A, AD393A.
QXCR1001086659
Typo error in the nwmgr --st subsys -c <lanppa> output .QXCR1001062966
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