HP FDDI 9000 FDDI/9000 PCI Adapter Release Notes for HP-UX 10.20 - Page 9

FDDI/9000 PCI Adapter Release Notes for HP-UX 10.20 Patches and Fixes for this Version Patches and Fixes for this Version The following are the fixes included in this version. Fixes one through five are new for this release. For more information about which AR or patch release contains which fix, see Table 1-1 below. 1. A system with the FDDI PCI product installed (from the June 2000 application release) may panic with a 'data memory protection fault' when an application running sustained and heavy loop-back traffic over the FDDI PCI interface is closed. The loop-back packets have a non-SNAP destination Service Access Point (SAP), i.e. a destination SAP that is not equal to 0xAA. 2. The driver has been enhanced to support LAN Monitor. 3. Enhancements to support the "Clear Statistics" option of the lanadmin command have been added. 4. A broadcast storm problem, which occurred when two subnets were on the same physical LAN, has been fixed. 5. Support to communicate link up/down events to upper layers has been added. 6. Connection oriented (DLPI T2) failure problem has been fixed. This requires the following LAN cumulative patches: • For the 700 model: PHNE_21215 • For the 800 model: PHNE_21216 or subsequent patches to be installed. 7. Support for A-Class servers has been added. 8. Provided subsystem_id and subsystem_vendor_id check support for the new universal card which will replace the current card. 9. Corrected spinlock usage to avoid a potential hang. 10. Added support for loopback outbound promiscuous. 11. Provided man page support which was lacking in the B.10.20.01 and B.10.20.03 releases. 12. Fixed a rare case of memory leak. 13. Shortened the period of holding a spinlock during heavy outbound Chapter 1 9