Patch Name: PHNE_9612 Patch Description: s700 10.10 EISA 100VG-AnyLAN product cumulative patch Creation Date: 96/12/19 Post Date: 97/01/03 Hardware Platforms - OS Releases: s700: 10.10 Products: J2655AA_APX 100VG AnyLAN/9000 EISA B.10.10.00 Filesets: 100VG-EISA-KRN.100VG-KRN,B.10.10.00 Automatic Reboot?: Yes Status: General Superseded Critical: No Path Name: /hp-ux_patches/s700/10.X/PHNE_9612 Symptoms: PHNE_9612: The following symptoms correspond to the descriptions in the defect descriptions fields for PHNE_9612: 1. system panic by disconnecting cable 2. short transmit queue hurts performance PHNE_6940: The following symptoms correspond to the descriptions in the defect descriptions fields for PHNE_6940: 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_9612: The following defect descriptions are for PHNE_9612: 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 -b 32 -w 1000 -l 10 -- -m 1472" PHNE_6940: The following defect descriptions are for PHNE_6940: 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: /usr/conf/lib/lib100vg.a what(1) Output: /usr/conf/lib/lib100vg.a: vgal0.h $Revision: 1.13 $ $Date: 96/10/28 13:40:06 $ vgal0.c $Revision: 1.64 $ $Date: 96/10/28 12:16:20 $ FILESET 100VG: lib 100vg: Version: A.10.10 PHNE_9612 cksum(1) Output: 2320126433 41128 /usr/conf/lib/lib100vg.a Patch Conflicts: None Patch Dependencies: None Hardware Dependencies: None Other Dependencies: None Supersedes: PHNE_6940 Equivalent Patches: PHNE_9609: s700: 9.05 PHNE_9610: s700: 10.01 PHNE_9611: s800: 10.01 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. Login as root. 3. Copy the patch to the /tmp directory. 4. Move to the /tmp directory and unshar the patch: cd /tmp sh PHNE_9612 5a. For a standalone system, run swinstall to install the patch: swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x match_target=true \ -s /tmp/PHNE_9612.depot 5b. For a homogeneous NFS Diskless cluster run swcluster on the server to install the patch on the server and the clients: swcluster -i -b This will invoke swcluster in the interactive mode and force all clients to be shut down. WARNING: All cluster clients must be shut down prior to the patch installation. Installing the patch while the clients are booted is unsupported and can lead to serious problems. The swcluster command will invoke an swinstall session in which you must specify: alternate root path - default is /export/shared_root/OS_700 source depot path - /tmp/PHNE_9612.depot To complete the installation, select the patch by choosing "Actions -> Match What Target Has" and then "Actions -> Install" from the Menubar. 5c. For a heterogeneous NFS Diskless cluster: - run swinstall on the server as in step 5a to install the patch on the cluster server. - run swcluster on the server as in step 5b to install the patch on the cluster clients. By default swinstall will archive the original software in /var/adm/sw/patch/PHNE_9612. If you do not wish to retain a copy of the original software, you can create an empty file named /var/adm/sw/patch/PATCH_NOSAVE. Warning: If this file exists when a patch is installed, the patch cannot be deinstalled. Please be careful when using this feature. It is recommended that you move the PHNE_9612.text file to /var/adm/sw/patch for future reference. To put this patch on a magnetic tape and install from the tape drive, use the command: dd if=/tmp/PHNE_9612.depot of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2k Special Installation Instructions: Customer should check the output in the swagent.log or swinstall.log file to verify the installation of the files.