IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.1212 Ethernet Driver Release Notes

Table 3 HP-UX 11i v3 September 2012 fixes — IEther-00 B.11.31.1209.01 (continued)
DescriptionSR number
card, and the corresponding switch port is disabled, the LAN interface link status on the
system side is displayed by nwmgr and lanadmin as UP. It should be displayed as DOWN.
Link status detection delay with NC360m and NC364m PCIe Ethernet mezzanine server blade
card (Intel 82571mezzanine cards only). When a link is down, there is a significant delay
QXCR1001216397
before the iether driver detects this and logs a nettl error. Reported delays range from
2 to 36 seconds.
Table 4 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
Table 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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
4 Problems fixed in this or earlier versions 5