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VMS721H1_LAN-V0300 Alpha V7.2-1H1 LAN ECO Summary

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    *OpenVMS] VMS721H1_LAN-V0300 Alpha V7.2-1H1 LAN ECO Summary
    
    New Kit Date:       30-SEP-2002
    Modification Date:  Not Applicable
    Modification Type:  NEW KIT
    
    Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 2002.  All rights reserved.
    
    OP/SYS:     OpenVMS Alpha
    
    COMPONENT:  LAN
    
    SOURCE:     Compaq Computer Corporation
    
    ECO INFORMATION:
    
         ECO Kit Name:  VMS721H1_LAN-V0300
                        DEC-AXPVMS-VMS721H1_LAN-V0300--4.PCSI
         ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  None
         ECO Kit Approximate Size:  8992 Blocks
         Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1H1
         System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  Yes
         Rolling Re-boot Supported:  Yes
         Installation Rating:  INSTALL_1
                                1 - To be installed on all systems running
                                    the listed version(s) of OpenVMS.
    
         Kit Dependencies:
    
           The following remedial kit(s), or later, must be installed BEFORE
           installation of this kit:
    
             VMS721H1_UPDATE-V0500
    
           In order to receive all the corrections listed in this
           kit, the following remedial kits, or later, should also be installed:
    
             None
    
    
    ECO KIT SUMMARY:
    
    An ECO kit exists for LAN on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1H1.
    This kit addresses the following problems:
    
    PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN VMS721H1_LAN-V0300 KIT
    
         o  The system can crash when another instance in the Galaxy  shuts
            down  and  there  is  I/O outstanding to the EBA (Galaxy Shared
            Memory LAN) device.  The driver fork routine now verifies  that
            the  other  instance has not shut down before processing I/O on
            behalf of it.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EBDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  The receiving side of a transmit request  to  the  EBA  (Galaxy
            Shared  Memory  LAN)  devic  may crash because the PFN count is
            incorrect.  The transmit side now updates the PFN count  before
            updating the pointers given to the other instance in the Galaxy
            (that is the target of the  transmit  request),  eliminating  a
            race condition in the driver.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EBDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  If the cluster code (PEDRIVER) is using the EBA (Galaxy  Shared
            Memory  LAN)  device,  it  may choose another slower LAN device
            rather than the shared memory LAN device.  This change sets the
            device  line  speed  to  30000  so  that  PEDRIVER chooses this
            interconnect over other slower interconnects.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EBDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Occasionally, a transmit request  to  the  EIA  (82558,  82559,
            82559ER,  DE600,  DE602 PCI Ethernet) device is not seen by the
            device.  This causes the transmit to be delayed until the  next
            transmit  request  is  given  to  the device.  Under heavy load
            conditions, this is not noticeable.  Under light load, this  is
            seen  as  a  transmit that may take seconds to complete.  Where
            the device is used as a cluster  interconnect,  the  result  is
             transmit retries and virtual circuit closures.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  With the EIA (82558,82559, 82559ER, DE600, DE602 PCI  Ethernet)
            device,  if  the  link  partner redoes auto-negotiation (switch
            powered off, for example), the driver does  not  force  a  link
            transition  when  appropriate,  resulting  in  the link partner
            mode.    Also,   the  requested  settings  are  not  advertised
            correctly  resulting  in  difficulty  auto-negotiating  to  the
            intended speed and duplex mode.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  The EIA (82558, 82559,  82559ER,  DE600,  DE602  PCI  Ethernet)
            device  driver  is  treating  the  console environment variable
            EIx0_MODE   setting   of   "twisted-pair"   as    "Full-Duplex,
            Twisted-pair",  so  it  should select half-duplex 10 mbit mode,
            but selects full-duplex instead.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  The EIA (82558, 82559,  82559ER,  DE600,  DE602  PCI  Ethernet)
            device   driver   is   not  processing  the  EIx0_MODE  console
            environment variable setting  of  "FastFD"  setting  correctly.
            This can result in a duplex mode mismatch problem.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  The EIA (82558, 82559,  82559ER,  DE600,  DE602  PCI  Ethernet)
            device occasionally reads an invalid buffer descriptor from the
            receive ring.  When this happens a machine  check  occurs  with
            resulting  system  crash, often with an "invalid scatter-gather
            map" error.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Add support for the Intel 82559ER chip and the DE602-BB NIC.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Add support for internal loopback mode.  Some applications, for
            example,  the  UETP  system test package, use internal loopback
            mode in the  EIA  (82558,  82559,  82559ER,  DE600,  DE602  PCI
            Ethernet)  device  driver.   This  now  runs correctly on these
            NICs.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Add support for the 82558/82559 self-test after initialization.
            This  test  ensures that the driver does not attempt to use the
            device before it has passed some basic functional self-testing.
            If self-test fails, the device is marked offline.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Address performance problems with receive processing in the EIA
            (82558,  82559,  82559ER,  DE600,  DE602  PCI  Ethernet) device
            driver.  This change restructures receive processing to improve
            performance,  and  reduce  the  number  of  receive  overflows.
            Receive overflows are visible  in  the  LAN  counters  for  the
            device  and each overflow represents a lost packet which causes
            application pauses and retransmits.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Resolve a system crash with the  EIA  (82558,  82559,  82559ER,
            DE600,  DE602  PCI  Ethernet) device driver and with IP traffic
            (generally involving a lot of telnet  connections).   When  the
            number of segments comprising a transmit packet request exceeds
            15,  the  driver  copies  the  remaining  segments   into   one
            additional   segment.    If  this  segment  is  not  physically
            contiguous, therefore requiring two additional segments instead
            of  one,  the driver corrupts the stack and causes an INVEXCPTN
            system crash.  The problem is that the check for maximum number
            of segments is off by one.
    
             Images Affected: [SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Fix a  few  problems  with  auto-negotiation  by  DE500-BA  PCI
            Ethernet  devices  to  improve  the  ability  of  the driver to
            auto-negotiate to the correct setting.  This includes adjusting
            the  timing  of various auto-negotiation events, and restarting
            auto-negotiation when appropriate.
    
             Images Affected: [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
         o  On rare occasions, it is possible for the Tulip driver to reset
            the  Tulip  chip,  but  not wait long enough after reset before
            touching the device resulting in a machine check system  crash.
            The solution is to increase the amount of time after a reset to
            guarantee that the device has sufficient time to  reset  itself
            after a reset.  The Tulip driver includes support for the Tulip
            chip, DE425 EISA NIC, and the PCI Ethernet NICs  DE434,  DE435,
            DE500-XA, DE500-AA, DE500-BA, DE504-BA.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
         o  The  system  can  crash  when  configuring  the  DE425  on   an
            AlphaStation 150.  The driver expects to have map registers but
            they are not present on this system.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Adjust interrupt handling changes that were done to  the  Tulip
            driver   for   V7.2-1H1  to  address  a  problem  with  delayed
            interrupts.  On occasion, the interrupt for a receive packet is
            delayed  until  a  subsequent  packet is received.  Under heavy
            load conditions this is not noticeable, under  light  load,  it
            happens  occasionally.   The  Tulip driver includes support for
            the Tulip chip, DE425 EISA  NIC,  and  the  PCI  Ethernet  NICs
            DE434, DE435, DE500-XA, DE500-AA, DE500-BA, DE504-BA.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
         o  On  the  Alpha  Professional  Workstation  (XP-1000)  with  the
            embedded  DE500-BA,  auto-negotiation  is not enabled correctly
            after a user request to set  the  mode.   This  results  in  an
            inability  to  negotiate  to the desired speed and duplex mode.
            (DE500-BA only).
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
         o  A transmit issued to the DE500-BA PCI  Ethernet  device  driver
            may  complete  with false error status.  The transmit status is
            correctly recognized  as  'success',  but  in  the  process  of
            setting  the  correct  status,  the  driver clears the transmit
            length, so transmit requests completed by  the  driver  to  the
            user  application  have  a length of zero bytes rather than the
            requested length.  This may affect an application which depends
            on the valid length.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
         o  Return SS$_DISCONNECT error status on transmit requests to  the
            DE500-BA PCI Ethernet device driver which complete with a "loss
            of  carrier"  error.   This  error  occurs  if  the  cable   is
            disconnected using the 10Base5 MAU on the Alpha Workstations.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
         o  Although it is a rare occurance, it is possible for a system to
            hang  in  a  continuous  interrupt  loop  in  the  DE500-BA PCI
            Ethernet device driver.   The  DE500-BA  generates  an  unusual
            interrupt  and the interrupt service routine does not clear the
            interrupt condition, resulting in an apparent system  hang,  as
            interrupts are continuously generated.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
         o  Add support for the Alpha  Professional  Workstation,  XP-1000,
            for  the  alternative MAU options, the 10/100 UTP, 10Base2, and
            10Base5, which attach to the embedded DE500-BA.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
         o  The DEGPA firmware included in the device driver for the  DEGPA
            PCI  Gigabit  Ethernet  NIC  cannot deal with a transmit buffer
            that is within 12 bytes of a 4 gigabyte boundary.   This  could
            lead  to  data  corruption.   This  problem  only  affects  the
            AlphaServer   4100,   AlphaServer   DS20,   AlphaServer   ES40,
            AlphaServer  GS80  and  GS160,  and system upgrades such as the
            DS25, ES45, and only those systems with at least 4 gigabytes of
            memory.   The fix is to avoid the problem by copying the buffer
            to a special buffer that is not  near  such  a  boundary.   The
            number  of  times  the  workaround is invoked is tallied in the
            internal     driver      counters      (MC      LANCP      SHOW
            DEVICE/INTERNAL_COUNTERS)  called "4GB workarounds", so you can
            see if the condition ever does occur.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EW1000A.EXE
    
    
         o  Increase the amount of time given for device reset by the DEGPA
            PCI  Gigabit Ethernet device driver of the Tigon II chip..  The
            time is  increased  from  80  to  640  milliseconds.   On  some
            systems,  insufficient  reset  time  occasionally  results in a
            machine check system crash when the driver touches  the  device
            after a reset.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EW1000A.EXE
    
    
         o  When a user (protocol) is stopped,  the  user  context  is  not
            reset  correctly  by  the  DEGPA  PCI  Gigabit  Ethernet device
            driver.  This results in  an  inability  to  restart  the  user
            without  rebooting  the  system.   For  example,  if  DECnet is
            stopped and restarted it may fail to restart.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EW1000A.EXE
    
    
         o  The multicast addresses list is not  given  to  the  DEGPA  PCI
            Gigabit  Ethernet  device  again  after  the  driver resets the
            device to clear a transmit timeout condition.  This can  happen
            if  the  cable  is  unplugged with transmits outstanding to the
            device.  The consequence is that multicast  traffic  stops  for
            all  users  (protocols)  until  another  user  is started or an
            existing user is stopped and restarted.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EW1000A.EXE
    
    
         o  Under rare circumstances, the TGEC driver, SYS$EZDRIVER, on DEC
            4000  Model  410  systems,  can bugcheck with a NETDLLERR crash
            when  the  driver  detects  an  inconsistency   in   its   data
            structures.   This  can occur when the last user (of the EZA or
            EZB LAN device) stops and the number of  outstanding  transmits
            is not zero.  This fix corrects the problem.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EZDRIVER.EXE
    
         o  On DEC 7000 systems with the DEFPA PCI FDDI device,  which  use
            mailbox  hardware  to read and write registers, the error bits,
            which the driver should clear, are not being cleared  properly.
            This  may  result  in  a  machine check system crash because of
            stale error bits.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$FWDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  Increase the time after a reset before touching  the  PDQ  FDDI
            LAN device (FCA - DEFTA Turbochannel, FAA - DEFRA - DEFEA EISA,
            FWA - DEFPA PCI).   This  as  well  as  the  above  change  may
            contribute  to  an  occasional machine check system crash after
            the driver resets the device during system boot.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$FCDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FADRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FRDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FWDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  For the PDQ FDDI LAN devices (FCA - DEFTA Turbochannel,  FAA  -
            DEFRA - DEFEA EISA, FWA - DEFPA PCI), change the restart policy
            after a device  initialization  error  from  'mark  the  device
            offline' to 'retry every 10 seconds indefinitely'.  This change
            allows the driver to recover from  a  temporary  initialization
            failure  and to avoid the need for a system reboot to clear the
            condition.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$FCDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FADRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FRDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FWDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  In OpenVMS Version V7.2, the device line speed was added to the
            LAN  Device  Characteristics  block (LDC) that VCI applications
            can look at to determine device characteristics.  For the token
            ring drivers, the speed field is incorrectly specified so it is
            always zero.  This fix correctly adds the line speed to the LDC
            block.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ICDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$IRDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$IWDRIVER.EXE
    
    
         o  For all LAN devices, modify the  VCI  transmit  path  (used  by
            PEDRIVER,  DECnet-Plus, TCP/IP, LAST, LAT and others) to verify
            the  transmit  request  is  not  too  long,  incrementing   the
            "Transmit too long" error counter and returning error status to
            the  offending  application.   This  improves  the  ability  to
            diagnose  application  problems  by  identifying the failure to
            transmit in the device counters and making it more visible.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_CSMACD.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_FDDI.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_TR.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_ATM.EXE
    
    
         o  For all LAN devices, modify the VCI interface to  allow  a  VCI
            user to enable promiscuous mode.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_CSMACD.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_FDDI.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_TR.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_ATM.EXE
    
    
         o  For all LAN devices, Remove the  limitation  of  255  multicast
            addresses  enabled  for  a device.  This may improve efficiency
            somewhat by decreasing the multicast filtering work done by the
            LAN  driver.   Only the Gigabit Ethernet devices take advantage
            of this capability.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_CSMACD.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_FDDI.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_TR.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_ATM.EXE
    
    
         o  Add initial  hardware  support  for  the  Fore  Networks  HE155
            (DAPBA)  and  HE622 (DAPCA) NICs, including the ForeThought LAN
            emulation code ported to OpenVMS, located in SYS$LAN_ATM4.EXE.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ELDRIVER4.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$HWDRIVER4.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_ATM4.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_CSMACD.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_FDDI.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_TR.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$LAN_ATM.EXE
    
    
         o  When a DECnet-Plus NCL  command,  "SHOW  FDDI  STATION  *  ALL"
            request is processed by the LAN driver network management code,
            if the requested device returns counters  data  asynchronously,
            it  is  possible  that  R3  is  destroyed during the LAN driver
            processing.  This results in an  INVEXCPTN  crash  in  NCL.EXE.
            The  problem  is  that  R3  is  not preserved cross the call to
            obtain  counters,  when  it  should  be.   This   affects   any
            DECnet-Plus  network  managed device that returns counters data
            asynchronously to a counters request, which is all XMI and  all
            FDDI adapters.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]NET$CSMACD.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]NET$FDDI.EXE
    
    
         o  Fix the display  of  error  messages  displayed  by  LANCP  and
            LANACP.   If  there  were  multiple  errors  when  validating a
            command, not all  of  the  error  codes  were  saved  properly,
            resulting  in  difficulty  deciphering  what  went wrong when a
            command failed.
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANACP.EXE
    
    
         o  Increase the allowed length of the LAN$DLL logical name from 16
            to  256  characters.   This  is  used  by  LANACP to locate the
            default directory containing downline load images.
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANACP.EXE
    
    
         o  If the parent device name is not specified in the definition of
            an  ATM emulated LAN, other parameters specified in the command
            are lost.  So, if a series  of  parameters  are  specified,  in
            separate commands, the parameters are not saved until a command
            specifying the parent device name was specified.
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANACP.EXE
    
    
         o  Decrease the number of receive buffers specified for use by MOP
            from 6 to 4 to reduce the amount of bytlm quota required by the
            LANACP process.
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANACP.EXE
    
    
         o  If  LANACP  fails  to  enable  downline  load  service  for   a
            particular  device, at initial startup, it returns error status
            to the system startup code which  then  terminates  the  image.
            The  result  is  that  LANACP  is  not running after the system
            boots.  This change modifies LANACP  so  it  continues  to  run
            after  being  started, on any devices that it was able to start
            on, despite a startup error on a device.
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANACP.EXE
    
    
         o  The message buffer for downline load service  messages  is  too
            small.   this  could  cause  it to be overrun, resulting in the
            termination of LANACP with a stack dump.
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANACP.EXE
    
    
         o  Add support for automatic  loading  of  the  ATM  emulated  LAN
            drivers,  for  the  ELAN  and  CLIP  emulated  devices.
    
    	  Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANACP.EXE
    
    
         o  LANCP does not return the expected status to CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM
            resulting in unexpected errors when attempting to configure the
            satellite boot portion of cluster configuration.
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]LANCP.EXE
    
    
         o  Improve the boot messages for the EIA (82558,  82559,  82559ER,
            DE600, DE602 PCI Ethernet), ERA (Tulip, DE422 EISA, DE425 EISA,
            DE205  ISA  Ethernet),  and  EWA  (PCI  Tulip,  DE434,   DE435,
            DE500-XA, DE500-AA, DE500-BA PCI Ethernet) LAN devices, so that
            more details are available to diagnose boot failures.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$ERBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$EIBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]APB.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]DEBUG_APB.EXE
    
    
         o  Add  support  for  booting  the  Alpha  Personal   Workstation,
            XP-1000, over the embedded 21143 chip.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$ERBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]APB.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]DEBUG_APB.EXE
    
    
         o  The boot driver for  the  DE500  PCI  Ethernet  device  is  not
            restarting  auto-negotiation  after resetting the device, which
            results in the  link  partner  (generally  an  auto-negotiating
            10/100  switch)  selecting half-duplex mode and the boot driver
            selecting full-duplex mode.  The  duplex  mode  mismatch  slows
            satellite booting considerably.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]APB.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]DEBUG_APB.EXE
    
    
         o  The embedded 21143 chip (10/100 Ethernet) in the Alpha Personal
            Workstation,  is  not  programmed  correctly  resulting  in  an
            inability to auto-negotiate properly and an inability  to  work
            at   all   console-specified  modes  (the  console  environment
            variable settings).
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]APB.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]DEBUG_APB.EXE
    
    
         o  OpenVMS Version V7.3 LAN cluster support obsoletes  the  system
            parameter,  NISCS_LAN_OVRHD,  which  was  typically  set  to 18
            bytes.  This parameter reduces the maximum packet size used  by
            the  cluster  code.   When  set  to  0-5 bytes, the packet size
            exceeds the size of the receive buffers in the FDDI boot driver
            for  the  TurboChannel  DEFTA,  EISA  DEFEA, and PCI DEFPA FDDI
            devices.  This usually results in 1-6 bytes of zeros  scattered
            about  the  images  loaded  by  the boot driver, which in turn,
            results in a system crash when an affected  image  attempts  to
            execute the corrupted portion of the image.
    
            The  problem  is  significant  only  when  the  NISCA_LAN_OVRHD
            parameter  is  set to 0-5 bytes on the system which is the FDDI
            boot server, regardless of which OpenVMS release the server  is
            running  on.   For  version  V7.3  and  later, the parameter is
            obsolete and the LAN cluster driver (PEDRIVER) does not  reduce
            the maximum packet size at all.
    
            The fix corrects the problem in the FDDI  boot  driver  in  the
            satellite  node  by  increasing  the  receive  buffer  size  to
            accomodate the maximum possible size FDDI packet.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$FCBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FRBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYS$LDR]SYS$FWBTDRIVER.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]APB.EXE
                             [SYSEXE]DEBUG_APB.EXE
    
    
         o  Add support (device IDs) for the following new hardware:
    
             o  DE602-BA i82558 100BaseTX
    
             o  DE602-TA i82558 100BaseTX
    
             o  IntraServer i82558 Fast Ethernet
    
             o  DAPBA-FA (155m, MMF)
    
             o  DAPBA-UA (155m, UTP)
    
             o  DAPCA-FA (622m, MMF)
    
    
             Images Affected:[SYSEXE]SYS$CONFIG.DAT
    
    
    
    RELATED ARTICLES:
    
    Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
    the OPENVMS database(s).  To view these articles,open the appropriate product
    database and perform a query using either of the following search strings:
    'VMS721H1_LAN-V0300' or 'VMS721H1_LAN'.
    
    
    ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
    
    If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
    electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
    (AES) Service Tool.  If you are not familiar with how to request
    kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
    review the article entitled:
    
         [AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools
    
    
    INSTALLATION NOTES:
    
    This kit requires a system reboot.  Compaq strongly recommends that
    a  reboot  is performed immediately after kit installation to avoid
    system instability
    
    If you have other nodes in your OpenVMS cluster, they must also  be
    rebooted  in  order  to make use of the new image(s).  If it is not
    possible or convenient to reboot the entire cluster at this time, a
    rolling re-boot may be performed.
    
    INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
    
    Install this kit with the POLYCENTER Software installation  utility
    by logging into the SYSTEM account, and typing the following at the
    DCL prompt:
    
    PRODUCT INSTALL VMS721H1_LAN /SOURCE=[location of Kit]
    
    The kit location may be a tape drive, CD, or a disk directory that
    contains the kit.
    
    Additional help on installing PCSI kits can be found by typing
    HELP PRODUCT INSTALL at the system prompt
    
    
    Special Installation Instructions:
    
         o  Scripting of Answers to Installation Questions
    
            During installation,  this  kit  will  ask  and  require  user
            response  to  several  questions.  If you wish to automate the
            installation of this kit and avoid having to provide responses
            to  these  questions,  you must create a DCL command procedure
            that includes the following definitions and commands:
    
               -  $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP TRUE
    
               -  $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT TRUE
    
               -  Add  the  following  qualifiers  to  the  PRODUCT  INSTALL
                  command and add that command to the DCL procedure.
    
                    /PROD=DEC/BASE=AXPVMS/VER=V3.0
    
    
               -  De-assign the logicals assigned
    
            For  example,  a  sample   command   file   to   install   the
            VMS721H1_LAN-V0300 kit would be:
    
              $
              $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP TRUE
              $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT TRUE
              $!
              $ PROD INSTALL VMS721H1_LAN/PROD=DEC/BASE=AXPVMS/VER=V3.0
              $!
              $ DEASSIGN/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP
              $ DEASSIGN/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT
              $!
              $ exit
    
    
    
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      ==========================================================================
      |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
      | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | APB.EXE                    | CF6A4389 | X-8             | 27-AUG-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 00:47:18.47  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DEBUG_APB.EXE              | CF6A4389 | X-8             | 27-AUG-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 00:49:11.13  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | LANACP.EXE                 | D3A2C4FA | X-31            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:09:52.13  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | LANCP.EXE                  | 8422D9B2 | X-48            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:09:34.89  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | NET$CSMACD.EXE             | 9FF3DB3C | X-17            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:09:10.35  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | NET$FDDI.EXE               | 8C744FC3 | X-17            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:09:19.91  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EBDRIVER.EXE           | 28C7FAE3 | X-12            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:11:53.04  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EIBTDRIVER.EXE         | C8F819D2 | X-1             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:48:29.97  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE           | 91508D5B | X-25            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:12:05.75  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$ELDRIVER4.EXE          | 72213319 | X-13            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:01:39.14  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$ERBTDRIVER.EXE         | 237677CD | X-4             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:54:06.04  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE           | 7663209F | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:02:58.61  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EW1000A.EXE            | CABD6A37 | X-31            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:11:40.81  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EWBTDRIVER.EXE         | EDEB8BB6 | X-4             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:55:22.09  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE           | 42810F70 | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:03:50.46  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      |SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE    | 65DAC24F | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:04:12.34  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EZDRIVER.EXE           | CD89936C | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:05:31.39  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FADRIVER.EXE           | 0A2E6780 | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:06:12.81  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FCBTDRIVER.EXE         | 7088CD52 | X-1             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:58:19.93  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FCDRIVER.EXE           | 96897C1A | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:06:27.80  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FRBTDRIVER.EXE         | 84DE6521 | X-1             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:58:48.54  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FRDRIVER.EXE           | E2E4E2C4 | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:06:50.74  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FWBTDRIVER.EXE         | 4FF2CB82 | X-1             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:59:12.88  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FWDRIVER.EXE           | 1556254B | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:07:05.77  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$HWDRIVER4.EXE          | F661382C | X-15            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:12:16.85  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$ICDRIVER.EXE           | 17B0BF68 | X-39            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:07:56.43  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$IRDRIVER.EXE           | 28AAEECC | X-39            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:07:40.12  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$IWDRIVER.EXE           | 9A596D58 | X-39            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:08:09.96  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN.EXE                | FB8050EA | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:49:09.53  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_ATM.EXE            | 16EB14BB | X-27            | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:56:26.34  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_ATM4.EXE           | D666F0FD | X-5             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:56:46.04  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_CSMACD.EXE         | 774F9E8E | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:52:11.29  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_FDDI.EXE           | 88667260 | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 03:59:22.41  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_TR.EXE             | D28A1DDA | X-3             | 17-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 04:00:05.98  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
    
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