IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.1210 Ethernet Driver Release Notes, Edition 2 (November 2012)

1 IEther-00 overview
The IEther-00 bundle contains the iether version B.11.31.1210 driver, which supports the
following Gigabit Ethernet cards and combination cards:
HP Integrity and
HP 9000 server
LOMs and core
Ethernet I/O cards
PCI-X Combination
Cards
PCI-X Ethernet
Cards
PCIe Combination
Cards
PCIe Ethernet
Mezzanine Cards
PCIe Ethernet
Cards
rx1620
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AB290A
1
A7011AAD221ANC360mAD337A
A7012AAD222ANC364mAD338A
rx2620
2
AD193A
AB545AAD393AAD339A
AD194A
rx2800
2
AD331A
rp44x0
3
AD332A
rx4640
3
rx3600
4
rx6600
4
1
For rp7440 and rx7640 servers, the AB290A is provided as the core I/O card.
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LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
3
Core Ethernet I/O card (earlier versions of the server might have non-iether adapters as core)
4
Core Ethernet I/O card
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 7).
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 and Receive Checksum Offload (CKO) for IPv4
• Transmit TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) 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
1
• HP Serviceguard
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.
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