NonStop Networking Overview

Persistence
The NonStop TCP/IPv6 and CIP products on the Integrity NonStop systems participate in the system
configuration database as generic processes and can be managed by the persistence manager.
If you add their processes as generic processes, they start automatically upon system reload and
restore their stored and subordinate objects.
For more information about configuring NonStop TCP/IPv6 to be persistent, see the TCP/IPv6
Configuration and Management Manual. For more information about configuring CIP to be
persistent, see the Cluster I/O Protcols (CIP) Configuration and Management Manual. For more
information about managing generic processes, see the SCF Reference Manual for the Kernel
Subsystem.
What's Unique About Networking on Integrity NonStop BladeSystems
Networking on a NonStop BladeSystem offers the same features as networking on a NonStop
NS-series system with these exceptions:
• The NonStop BladeSystem connects directly to the NonStop S-series I/O enclosure and supports
the 6763 Common Communication ServerNet adapter (CCSA-2) with up to 4 SS7TE3 plug-in
cards (PICs) and the token ring ServerNet adapter (TRSA). No other configurations of the
CCSA are supported.
• Other differences in features exist. (See the Cluster I/O Protcols (CIP) Configuration and
Management Manual for information about networking feature differences and see the NonStop
BladeSystem Planning Guide for more information about features and differences of this
system.)
NOTE: Only some Integrity NonStop systems support the S-series I/O enclosure. Check the
planning guide for your system.
Summary Comparison of NonStop TCP/IP Products on H-Series and J-Series
RVUs
This section compares at a high level, the three TCP/IP subsystems available on the H-series and
J-series RVUs.
Table 1 Comparison of NonStop TCP/IP Products
Cluster I/O Protocols (CIP)NonStop TCP/IPv6Conventional TCP/IP
10M / 100M / 1G Ethernet10M / 100M / 1G EthernetInterface Types
• 10M / 100M / 1G
Ethernet
• ATM
• SNAP (token-ring or
Ethernet)
• X.25
YesYesNoJumbo Frames Supported
What's Unique About Networking on Integrity NonStop BladeSystems 21