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Table 1-4 FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes Patches and Fixes in Version B.10.20.11 PHNE_15665 Symptom Defect 2. When an attempt is made to change the MAC address of the card using lanadmin(1M), the link becomes unusable for up to 10 seconds and the MAC address remains unchanged. 3. DLPI applications that use hierarchical sub-binding to SNAP SAPs other than IP or ARP may sometimes receive packets not meant for them from the EISA FDDI link. 2, The MAC address of the card cannot be changed. Users were not prevented from attempting to do this. 3. The driver forwarded SNAP packets that were neither IP nor ARP to all applications registered with SNAP SAPs other than IP or ARP. EISA FDDI 10.20: New Defect Fixes Besides the above patch fixes, this release also has: 1. Fix for IOVR leak in the EISA FDDI driver during a card reset. 2. The fddiif and fddilink commands have been enhanced to support writing their output to a file. A '-o' option has been added to both the commands. 3. After a card reset, multicast addresses enabled previously were not reloaded. This has been fixed. In this release these are no longer treated as inbound errors. 4. Fix to not hold spinlock around call to copyout. 20 Chapter 1

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Chapter 1
FDDI/9000 EISA Adapter Release Notes
Patches and Fixes in Version B.10.20.11
EISA FDDI 10.20: New Defect Fixes
Besides the above patch fixes, this release also has:
1.
Fix for IOVR leak in the EISA FDDI driver during a card reset.
2.
The fddiif and fddilink commands have been enhanced to support
writing their output to a file. A ‘-o’ option has been added to both the
commands.
3.
After a card reset, multicast addresses enabled previously were not
reloaded. This has been fixed.
In this release these are no longer treated as inbound errors.
4.
Fix to not hold spinlock around call to copyout.
2. When an attempt is made to change
the MAC address of the card using
lanadmin(1M)
, the link becomes
unusable for up to 10 seconds and the
MAC address remains unchanged.
2, The MAC address of the card cannot
be changed. Users were not prevented
from attempting to do this.
3. DLPI applications that use
hierarchical sub-binding to SNAP
SAPs other than IP or ARP may
sometimes receive packets not meant
for them from the EISA FDDI link.
3. The driver forwarded SNAP packets
that were neither IP nor ARP to all
applications registered with SNAP
SAPs other than IP or ARP.
Table 1-4
PHNE_15665
Symptom
Defect