HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Notes for HP-UX 10.20, 11.0 and 11i HP9000 Networking Manufacturing Part Number: J3626-90031 E1201 United States © Copyright 2001 Hewlett-Packard Company.
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1 HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11i The following Release Notes provide information about the HP9000 PCI FDDI LAN adapters for the HP-UX versions 11i. Announcement The Release Notes for PCI FDDI 10.20, 11.0 and 11i have been combined into one document. The Subagent support feature has been provided for HP9000 PCI FDDI 11i. What’s New in This Version The following enhancements to HP-UX 11i has been provided in this release: • PCI FDDI Subagent support for HP-UX 11i.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11i What’s New in This Version • FDDI-MIB: FDDI Management Information Base. See RFC1512. Requirements for Using Subagent The HP OpenView product is recommended, but you can use other SNMP managers to communicate with the subagent using manager applications (xnmbrowser) and commands. Use Managing HP-UX Software with SD-UX for HP-UX 11i as a reference guide for Patch installations. The HP OpenView Extensible SNMP Agent provides a good description for configuration.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11i Known Problems and Workarounds fddimibPORTConnectionPolices fddimibPORTRequestedPaths • The following two attributes have values with card specific ranges. Trying to set these attributes with a value that is out of the specific ranges will lead to an INVALID VALUE ERROR. fddimibSMTTraceMaxExpiration (6002--100000) fddimibPORTLerCutoff (5--8) • The following two attributes are read only for PCI FDDI subagent. Trying to set these attributes will lead to a READ ONLY ERROR.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11i Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version Fixes for 11i The fixes for the following symptoms are included in this version. 1. Messages similar to the following are seen either on the system console or in the system log file (/var/adm/syslog.log) by default for the A and B class systems with a non cache-coherent I/O that has the PCI FDDI card and driver installed. vmunix: FDDI[2]WARNING: cmd=0 failure Status=lcee90 2.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11.0 Announcement 2 HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11.0 Announcement The Release Notes for PCI FDDI 10.20, 11.0 and 11i have been combined into one document. The Subagent support feature has been provided for HP9000 PCI FDDI 11.00, release 11.00.16. What’s New in This Version The following enhancements to HP-UX 11.0 has been provided in this release, 11.00.16: Refer to the 11i release note section for detailed information on Subagent. 1.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11.0 Patches and Fixes in This Version - 11.00.16 Patches and Fixes in This Version - 11.00.16 Fixes for the following symptoms are included in this version. Fixes one through seven are for the new release, 11.00.16. See Table 2-1 at the end of this section for additional information regarding ARs or patch releases and the specific fixes they contain. 1. Network management subagent for PCI FDDI is not available. 2.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11.0 Patches and Fixes in This Version - 11.00.16 command. 11. The product lacks a configuration file that would allow configuration information to be stored for each interface (per-interface), and that could also be used to automatically initialize the PCI FDDI interfaces at boot-up time from the product start-up scripts. NOTE A new file, /etc/rc.config.d/hpfddi4conf has been provided in this release.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11.0 Patches and Fixes in This Version - 11.00.16 27. Added a reset mechanism to recover from transmit DMA time-out, command response time-out or card halt events. 28. Added a new option in the fddipciadmin command to allow the T_Req time and T_Notify time to be changed. 29. Fixed the fddipciadmin command to correctly display multicast addresses. 30.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11.0 Patches and Fixes in This Version - 11.00.16 obsoleted in 11.0. Table 2-1.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 11.0 Patches and Fixes in This Version - 11.00.16 Table 2-1.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 10.20 Announcement 3 HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 10.20 Announcement The Release Notes for PCI FDDI 10.20, 11.0 and 11i have been combined into one document. The Subagent support feature has been provided for HP9000 PCI FDDI 10.20, release 10.20.16. What’s New in This Version The following enhancements to HP-UX 10.20 has been provided in this release 10.20.16: Refer to the 11i release note section for detailed information on Subagent. 1.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 10.20 Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version Fixes for the following symptoms are included in this version. Fixes one through four are for the new release, 10.20.16. See Table 3-1 at the end of this section for additional information regarding ARs or patch releases and the specific fixes they contain. 1. Network management subagent for PCI FDDI is not available. 2. Details of unsolicited events are not available for the PCI FDDI Driver. 3.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 10.20 Patches and Fixes in This Version 12. Provided subsystem_id and subsystem_vendor_id check support for the new universal card which will replace the current card. 13. Corrected spinlock usage to avoid a potential hang. 14. Added support for loopback outbound promiscuous. 15. Provided man page support which was lacking in the B.10.20.01 and B.10.20.03 releases. 16. Fixed a rare case of memory leak. 17.
HP9000 PCI FDDI Release Note - 10.20 Patches and Fixes in This Version Table 3-1. Fixes Implemented Patch/Fix Number Released in this AR Released in This Patch 15 December 1999 PHNE_18735 16 December 1999 PHNE_18735 17 December 1999 PHNE_18735 18 June 1999 N/A 19 December 1998 N/A In the above table, both AR and Patch Releases are cumulative.
