IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.1209 Ethernet Driver Release Notes

1 IEther-00 overview

The IEther-00 bundle contains the iether version B.11.31.1209 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

AB290AA7011AAD221ANC360mAD337A

AD193AA7012AAD222ANC364mAD338A

AD194AAB545AAD393AAD339A

AD331A

AD332A

For more information about installing a supported card, see the respective card installation guide

at the following website:

www.hp.com/go/gigabit-ethernet-100bt-cards-docs

For more information about firmware requirements and how to obtain the latest firmware for your

product, see “Firmware requirements” (page 6).

2 Features

The iether driver manages Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for both copper (1000Base-T) and fiber

(1000Base-SX) links. The driver can support a variety of Ethernet technologies, including PCIe (PCI

Express) and PCI-X Ethernet-only and Ethernet/FC Combination cards.

Some notable features provided by the iether driver include:

• Receive and transmit flow control

• Transmit Checksum Offload (CKO) and TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) for IPv4

• Receive CKO for IPv4

• Jumbo Frames

• Multicast and Promiscuous mode

• IPv6

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging in hardware

• Interrupt migration

• Interrupt coalescing

• Link handling

• DLKM

• APA LM, aggregate, and failover modes

• HP Serviceguard

• PCI OLRAD

• PCI Error handling and recovery

• vPars V6

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM)

• HPVM AVIO

• HP-UX LAN provider

1. APA aggregate mode is not supported with server blades over Virtual Connect interconnects. Virtual Connect does not

support aggregates (trunks), LACP, or otherwise on the downlinks side.

1 IEther-00 overview 3