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

• MIB and driver statistics

• Configurable using SMH or nwmgr

• nettl tracing/logging

3 New and changed features in this release

3.1 New features

There are no new features included in IEther-00 at the time of this publication.

3.2 Changed features

There are no changed features included in IEther-00 at the time of this publication.

4 Problems fixed in this version

Table 1 HP-UX 11i v3 September 2012 fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1209

DescriptionSR number

System fails to produce a crash dump after a soft reset (TOC). This results because the iether

driver crashes when initializing at the same time that the system is performing the TOC (transfer

of control).

QXCR1001194114

Problems fixed in recent versions

Table 2 HP-UX 11i v3 April 2012 fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1204

DescriptionSR number

When using the nwmgr command over the iether interface to change the mtu size to 9000,

the following error is observed:

QXCR1001150789

#>nwmgr -s -A mtu=9000 -c lan<ppa>

lan<ppa> current values:

New MTU = ERROR: Invalid value

mtu : MTU

Maximum payload size for Ethernet frames.

Min: 257 Max: 9000 Default: 1500

Table 3 HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1203

DescriptionSR number

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

The iether driver causes reduced performance in other applications.QXCR1001169816

After 15 reboots, two of the four AD339A ports go into the DOWN state.QXCR1001135225

Table 4 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