Patch Name:  PHNE_9609

Patch Description: s700 9.X EISA 100VG-AnyLAN product cumulative patch

Creation Date: 96/12/17

Post Date:  97/01/03

Hardware Platforms - OS Releases:
        s700: 9.01 9.03 9.05 9.07

Products:
        J2655AA A.09.00

Filesets:
        100VG-KRN

Automatic Reboot?: Yes

Status: General Release

Critical: No

Path Name:  /hp-ux_patches/s700/9.X/PHNE_9609

Symptoms:
        PHNE_9609:
        The following symptoms correspond to the descriptions in
        the defect descriptions fields for PHNE_9609:
        1. system panic by disconnecting cable
        2. short transmit queue hurts performance

        PHNE_6937:
        The following symptoms correspond to the descriptions in
        the defect descriptions fields for PHNE_6937:
        1. system panic
        2. "ifconfig lan# down" does not work appropriately
        3. 10 BT link doesnot detect cable reconnection
        4. when cable is severed, "Hardware State" shown by lanscan
           is set to DOWN
        5. null mac address training is supported.
        6. system deadlock/hang
        7. system hang
        8. the current block of HP MAC addresses, which start with
           0x08009, is starting to run out.

Defect Description:
        PHNE_9609:
        The following defect descriptions are for PHNE_9606:
        1. system panic caused by miss-checking NULL pdl_head in
           label freepdls: (vgal0_ac_output) prior to deferencing
           it. Cable disconnection (ENOLINK) or ENOBUF could make
           the problem happen.
        2. driver allocated only 31 packets on transmit queue and
           it dropped packets when you send more than 31 packets
           at a time. The UDP-stream test of netperf could make the
           problem happen. For example, "netperf -t UDP_STREAM -H
           <host> -b 32 -w 1000 -l 10 -- -m 1472"

        PHNE_6937:
        The following defect descriptions are for PHNE_6937:
        1. system panic caused by callout table overflow due to a
           temporary shortage of system memory under heavy network
           traffic
        2. "ifconfig lan# down" is fixed
        3. reset the card for 10 BT to reconnect
        4. the fix makes the 100VG-AnyLAN/9000 link behavior
           consistent with other LAN/9000 links
        5. the fix is to conform to the revised hub protocol in the
           IEEE 802.12 standard
        6. a hardware defect. the fix includes a software workaround
        7. severe memory pressure
        8. the prefix of HP MAC address is checked against 0x08, if
           wrong, return error

SR:
        1653179994 1653180836

Patch Files:  
        /etc/conf/lib100vg.a

what(1) Output:
        /etc/conf/lib100vg.a:
                vgal0.c $Revision: 1.64 $ $Date: 96/10/28 12:16:20 $
                vgal0.h $Revision: 1.13 $ $Date: 96/10/28 13:40:06 $
                FILESET 100VG: lib 100vg: Version: A.09.00 PHNE_9609

sum(1) Output:
        21483 91 /etc/conf/lib100vg.a

Patch Conflicts: None

Patch Dependencies:  None

Hardware Dependencies:  None

Other Dependencies:  None

Supersedes:  
        PHNE_6937

Equivalent Patches:
        PHNE_9610:
        s700: 10.01

        PHNE_9611:
        s800: 10.01

        PHNE_9612:
        s700: 10.10

        PHNE_9613:
        s800: 10.10

Patch Package Size:  100 Kbytes

Installation Instructions:  
        Please review all instructions and the Hewlett-Packard
        SupportLine User Guide or your Hewlett-Packard support terms
        and conditions for precautions, scope of license,
        restrictions, and, limitation of liability and warranties,
        before installing this patch.
        ------------------------------------------------------------
        1. Back up your system before installing a patch.

        2. Copy the patch to your /tmp directory and unshar it:

                cd /tmp
                cp patch_source/PHNE_9609 .
                sh PHNE_9609

        3. Become root and run update:

                /etc/update [-r [kernel_gen_file]] -s \
                        /tmp/PHNE_9609.updt PHNE_9609

        Update moves the original software to
        /system/PHNE_9609/orig.  Keep this file to recover from any
        potential problems.  You should move the .text file to
        /system/PHNE_9609 for future reference.

        To put this patch on a magnetic tape and update from the
        tape drive, use dd:

                dd if=PHNE_9609.updt of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2048

Special Installation Instructions:  None