Changed Product Features for September 2004

The September 2004 release of HP-UX 11i v2 modifies the following Ethernet-based products:

The IEther-00 driver software bundle (iether driver) and the GigEther-01 driver software bundle (igelan driver) are updated to provide:
- TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO). See details in Chapter 1 of this document.
- 64-bit management information base (MIB) statistics. Directs the data link service (DLS) provider to return 64 bit statistics.
- Virtual LANs (VLANs). This feature was on HP-UX 11i v1 since June 2004 but was not on the HP-UX 11i v2 release of March 2004. This feature is described in Using HP-UX VLANs on http://docs.hp.com.
- HP-UX LAN provider support. You can use WBEM-based clients to access the LAN Provider and collect information about the Ethernet links on your system. For details on the LAN provider, please refer to the documentation for the LAN Provider on http://docs.hp.com.
The GigEther-00 driver software bundle (gelan driver) and the always-installed Fast Ethernet btlan driver are updated to provide:
- 64-bit management information base (MIB) statistics. Directs the data link service (DLS) provider to return 64 bit statistics.
- Virtual LANs (VLANs). This feature was on HP-UX 11i v1 since June 2004 but was not on the HP-UX 11i v2 release of March 2004. This feature is described in Using HP-UX VLANs on http://docs.hp.com.
- HP-UX LAN provider support. You can use WBEM-based clients to access the LAN Provider and collect information about the Ethernet links on your system. For details on the LAN provider, please refer to the documentation for the LAN Provider on http://docs.hp.com.

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