HP A7011A manual What’s in this Version

Release Notes for PCI-X 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet Cards

What’s in this Version

—rp4440, rp3440.

•Supports the following Itanium2 systems:

—Superdome (or Superdome with IO Expansion (IOX) cabinet). Includes new 64-way.

—rx8620 (base system or base system and I/O Expansion (IOX) cabinet).

—rx7620.

—rx5600.

—rx2600.

•Supports Ignite-UX.

•On the A7011A, the 1000Base-SX port operates only at 1000 Mbit/s and only in full-duplex mode. It autonegotiates flow control but not speed or duplexity.

Ensure that the 1000 Mbit/s port on the interfacing switch is set for autonegotiation or 1000Mbit/s full-duplex mode.

•On the A7012A, the 1000Base-T port operates at 10 or 100 Mbit/s in either full- or half-duplex modes and at 1000 Mbit/s only in full-duplex mode.

Ensure that you set both your switch and the gigabit Ethernet port on the card to autonegotiation or set both to the same speed and duplex mode

•The Gigabit Ethernet cards support use of Jumbo Frames. The maximum transmission unit (MTU) for using jumbo frames with the iether driver on HP-UX 11i v 1.0 or v 2.0 is in the range of 1501 to 9000 bytes.

•The Gigabit Ethernet LAN software supports TCP/IP, NFS, and DLPI applications. Ethernet and SNAP encapsulations are supported.

•Support interrupt migration.

•Support HP ServiceGuard.

•Support vPars.

•Support virtual LANs (VLANs).

•Support PCI-X/PCI online addition/replacement (OLA/R) on supported systems.

•The 1000Base-SX A7011A has two duplex LC connectors and two LEDs--one LED for each port. Each LED flashes to indicate Activity (data traffic) and is solid to indicate the link is up.

•The 1000Base-T A7012A has two RJ-45 ports. Each port has an activity/link LED and a speed LED that is off for 10 Mbit/s, green for 100 Mbit/s, or yellow for 1000 Mbit/s.

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