IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.1210 Ethernet Driver Release Notes, Edition 2 (November 2012)
Table 4 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 5 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 6 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
Table 7 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 8 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
The command nwmgr -s -A all --sa --fr current -c lan<ppa> on a PCIe
interface controlled by the iether driver fails with the following error message: New
512byte transmit buffer size limit = ERROR: Unsupported attribute.
QXCR1001063280
Typo error in the nwmgr_iether(1M) man page.QXCR1001062969
4 Problems fixed in this or earlier versions 5