10GigEthr-02 (iexgbe) B.11.31.1301 Ethernet Driver Release Notes (March 2013 Update, Edition 4)

• TCP segment reassembly in driver

• Jumbo Frames

• Multicast and Promiscuous mode

• IPv6

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging and stripping in hardware

• Interrupt migration

• Interrupt coalescing

• Link handling

• DLKM

• APA aggregate mode

• APA failover mode (LAN Monitor)

• HP Serviceguard

• PCI OLRAD

• PCI Error handling and recovery

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM)

• vPars V6

• DIO (direct I/O)

• HP-UX LAN provider

• MIB and driver statistics

• Configurable using SMH or nwmgr

• nettl tracing/logging

2 New and changed features in this release

2.1 New features

There are no new features in this version of 10GigEthr-02.

2.2 Changed features

The iexgbe driver has been enhanced with performance and stability improvements.

2.2.1 Changes introduced with 10GigEthr-02 B.11.31.1205

Tx and Rx flow control are now enabled by default. This flow control feature (which is optional)

has certain limitations documented in Section 4 (page 8).

Table 1 (page 6) lists the Rx and Tx flow control settings and defaults, as determined by the MTU

setting.

1. Only LACP mode is supported with APA aggregation with 10GbE links. 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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