10GigEthr-02 (iexgbe) B.11.31.1306 Ethernet Driver Release Notes

• Multiple receive queues

• Receive Side Scaling (RSS) with TCP and UDP

• 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.

2.1.1 New features introduced with the preceding release

The following features were introduced with B.11.31.1303.01:

• HP Smart Update Manager (HP SUM) support for online updating of I/O adapter firmware

HP SUM is the SPP deployment tool. It can be used to perform online updates of the I/O

adapter firmware on Integrity server systems running HP-UX. The 10GigEthr-02 driver is now

compatible with HP SUM, allowing online update of the firmware on supported I/O adapters.

The nwmgr firmware update command displays appropriate advisory messages describing

the online update. For example:

$ nwmgr -s --hp -A fw_dwnld=firmware_file.frm -c lan12

Firmware file: firmware_file.frm

Firmware file loaded and validated successfully

Proceed with update (Y if so)? Y

Please do not interrupt until complete (approximately 2-3 minutes)

Downloading firmware image to flash ...

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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