What’s in this Version

The following information is for the June 2004 update release of HP’s GigEther-01 (igelan) Gigabit Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v 1.0. The igelan driver supports Gigabit Ethernet cards such as:

A6825A PCI GigE Base-T,
A6847A PCI GigE Base-SX,
A6794A core PCI GigE BaseT/SCSI,
A7109A core PCI GigE,
A9782A PCI-X combination GigE Base-SX/Fibre Channel,
A9784A PCI-X combination GigE Base-T/Fibre Channel.

You can check to see if this driver is present on your system by running the commands described in ““How to Verify that the Correct Driver is in the Kernel”” in this document.

These June 2004 release notes include details on:

Support for a new feature: TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO). See details in the following section of this document.
Defect fixes.
The firmware level required for the rx8620/rx7620 servers when using PCI-X cards. The rx8620/rx7620 servers need system firmware version 1.009 or higher in order to use PCI-X based cards such as the A9782A and A9784A.

For the most up-to-date list of network cards and the systems that they work on, check the Card, Driver, Version matrix on http://docs.hp.com under “Networking and Communications,” or ask your sales representative.

What’s in this Version

Technical documentation

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