HP AB545A User Manual

AB545A PCI-X

4 Port Gigabit Ethernet Card

Overview

HP-UX Networking

HP 9000 and HP Integrity Systems

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Product Overview

The AB545A PCI-X LAN cards have the following features and requirements:

•

PCI-X 133 MHz

capable card and is keyed so it only fits in 3.3V slots. It can operate at 32-bit or 64-bit

modes and is supported in the following frequencies:

— PCI-X 133. Best performance is achieved by putting the card into one of the highest-performing (or

“

dual-rope

”) PCI-X 133 slot. To identify which slots are the highest performing slots in a particular

system, please refer to the hardware users’ guide for each system. — PCI-X 66 — PCI 66

The AB545A card is

not

supported in PCI 33 bus mode. See the CAUTION that follows:

CAUTION

The AB545A card DOES NOT SUPPORT PCI 33 MHz operation. Therefore, do not place this card in the shared slot of a system where the card in the neighboring shared slot is a 33 MHz only card!!! Please see Table 1 on page 7 for the list of 33 MHz only cards.

• Requires either HP-UX 11i v 2.0 (64 bit) operating environment (OE) of

September 2004 (or later)

the software bundle,

IEther-00

, from the 11i v 1.0 of

December 2004 (or later)

OE or application

software media.

— For 11i v 2.0, your system needs to be on the September 2004 operating environment or later, so you

need to load the entire OE. — For systems that are already running 11i v 1.0, you can either just load the required software driver

bundle, or you can load the entire December 2004 11i v 1.0 OE and /or application software and you

will automatically get the driver you need for this card.

• Supported speeds: 10/100 Mbit/s either in full- or half-duplex modes and 1000 Mbit/s in full-duplex mode

• Supports autonegotiation.

• Supports

Jumbo Frames

• Supports HP

Serviceguard

and Auto-Port Aggregation (

APA

) for high availability.

• Supports virtual LANs (

VLANs

). This feature is described in

Using HP-UX VLANs

on http://docs.hp.com.

• Supports PCI-X online addition/replacement (

OLA/R

) on specified systems. A patch is required. If your

system is running HP-UX 11i v 1.0, use PHKL_31227 (or later). If your system is running HP-UX 11i v

2.0, use PHKL_31226 (or later). If the patch is not installed, the OLA operation will not succeed and the card will not be usable until the system is rebooted.

For instructions on how to perform online addition and replacement (OLAR) for PA-RISC-based systems running HP-UX 11i v 1.0, see

Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals

. For instructions on performing OL* for Itanium-based systems and PA-RISC systems running HP-UX 11i v 2.0 of September 2004 or later, refer to the

Interface Card OL* Support Guide

• Supports configuration through

SAM

or command line on HP-UX 11i v2 and SMH or command line on

HP-UX 11i v3.

Product Overview

Driver Availability

• Supports vPars on HP Integrity and HP 9000 (PA-RISC-based) systems. Enables creation of additional partitions per server.

• Card resident EFI driver V 3.0.03.

• Supports LAN Boot on HP Integrity systems running HP-UX 11i v2 and on select HP 9000 systems running HP-UX 11i v1 or 11i v2.

• Supports Online/Offline Diagnostics.

• Supports Ignite-UX.

• IPv4 Checksum Offload for TCP (CKO).

• IPv4 TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO).

Operating Distance for 1000Base-T

(Copper UTP): Up to 100 meters — Cat 5 and Cat 5E

Driver Availability

The 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet cards use the

iether

driver. The bundle name for this driver is

IEther-00

. The

first supported release of the HP-UX

iether

driver is as follows: * for HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11): December 2004 media * for HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23): September 2004 media or http://www.hp.com/ To locate the iether driver on the web, go to http://www.hp.com/ and enter AB545A in the 'Search' field. On the

search results page, scroll down to find the HP-UX 11.23 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Driver (iether).

Verifying the LAN installation

• Verify that the LAN connector’s Link LED is steadily on (this means the card and driver are installed

successfully).

• Obtain the PPA number and the station address of each card by using the

lanscan

command. The MAC address labelled on each card refers to LAN port A. Add 0x1(Hex) to obtain the MAC address for the next LAN port.

• To verify link-level connectivity with a remote system, enter:

linkloop -i

PPA_number remote_station_address

Note: when you use

linkloop

, ensure that the remote system is on the same subnet and is an

HP-UX-based system.

• To verify IP-level connectivity with a remote system, enter:

ping

Remote_IP_Address

and

netstat -in

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