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VMS721_LAN-V0400 Alpha V7.2-1 LAN ECO Summary

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    *OpenVMS] VMS721_LAN-V0400 Alpha V7.2-1 LAN ECO Summary
    
    New Kit Date:       08-OCT-2002
    Modification Date:  Not Applicable
    Modification Type:  NEW KIT
    
    Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 2001,2002.  All rights reserved.
    
    OP/SYS:     OpenVMS Alpha
    
    COMPONENT:  LAN - Local Area Network
    
    SOURCE:     Compaq Computer Corporation
    
    ECO INFORMATION:
    
         ECO Kit Name:  VMS721_LAN-V0400
                        DEC-AXPVMS-VMS721_LAN-V0400--4.PCSI
         ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: None
         ECO Kit Approximate Size:  6064 Blocks
         Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1
         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:
    
             VMS721_UPDATE-V0300
    
           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 V7.2-1.  This kit addresses the
    following problems:
    
    PROBLEMS ADDRESSED IN VMS721_LAN-V0400 KIT
    
    
          o  The system can crash when another instance in the Galaxy  shuts
             down and there is outstanding I/O.  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 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 race condition in the driver.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EBDRIVER.EXE
    
    
          o  If the cluster code (PEDRIVER) is  using  the  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 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  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  selecting
             half-duplex mode when it should select full-duplex 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  driver  is  treating   "twisted-pair"   as   "Full-Duplex,
             Twisted-pair", where it should select half-duplex 10 mbit mode.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
          o  The  driver  is  not  processing  of  the  console  environment
             variable  for  the "FastFD" setting correctly.  This can result
             in a duplex mode mismatch  problem.   Most  customers  use  the
             auto-negotiation default and wil not see the problem.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
          o  The 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.  This now runs correctly on these NICs.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE
    
    
          o  Add support for the 82559 Intel chip set.  Also 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.   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  Fix a few problems with auto-negotiation 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$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
             		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
          o  On rare occasions, it is possible for the 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.
    
             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
             		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
             		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
          o  Adjust interrupt handling changes that were done for V7.2-1  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.
    
             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$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
          o  A transmit 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.  (DE500-BA only).
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
          o  Return SS$_DISCONNECT error status on transmit  requests  which
             complete  with a "loss of carrier" error.  This error occurs if
             the cable is disconnected using the 10Base5 MAU  on  the  Alpha
             Workstations.  (DE500-BA only).
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
              		 [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.  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.   (DE500-BA
             only).
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
              		 [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.   (DE500-BA
             only).
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
          o  Correct a receive overflow problem on the DE500-BA which causes
             the  receive  process  on  the  DE500-BA  to  hang,  preventing
             subsequent receives until the device is reset.  Since there  is
             not  a  problem  transmitting  packets,  the  driver  does  not
             recognize that the device needs to be reset.   So,  the  system
             must  be  rebooted or all applications using the device stopped
             and restarted to clear the condition.  This is a DE500-BA  only
             problem.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE
             		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE
    
    
          o  The DEGPA firmware 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.   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 resulting in the 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  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  "Add driver support for the DEGPA-SA and DEGPA-TA.  In order to
             use  these  devices  DEGPA firmware will have to be upgraded to
             Version 12.4.12.  This is the  only  version  of  the  firmware
             supported by the driver.
    
             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 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$LDR]SYS$FCDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$FADRIVER.EXE
             		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$FRDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$FWDRIVER.EXE
    
    
          o  Increase the time after a reset  before  touching  the  device.
             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  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  The number of outstanding control commands outstanding  to  the
             device  (for  such  things as user startup and shutdown) is not
             cleared  during  initialization  of  the  device.   Under  rare
             circumstances,  it  is  possible that this count is not zero at
             the point that initialization is done.  This can result in  the
             inability  of  an application to start a channel to the device.
             Depending on the behavior of the application after the  failure
             to  start  the channel, the user may see an application failure
             or a system crash.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$FXDRIVER.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  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  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  Remove the limitation of 255 multicast addresses enabled for  a
             device.
    
             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  Fix a system crash problem caused by a  packet  being  received
             for  a  user that had been stopped.  The receive filtering code
             had some stale last filtered user context that was used, so the
             receive  packet  was  delivered  to  a  user who did not exist,
             resulting in the system crash.
    
             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  Modify the receive filtering code to  allow  reception  of  802
             frames  with a DSAP equal to zero.  Prior to this change, these
             packets were considered illegal and could not be received by an
             application.
    
             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  Fix a problem with the LAN driver tracing code.  If tracing was
             stopped, resulting in the deallocation of the trace buffers, it
             was still possible for a trace entry to be made during a driver
             interrupt service routine.  This happend because the trace mask
             was cleared after the buffer was deallocated instead of before.
             This  would  result  in  a  system  crash if driver tracing was
             disabled in the midst of interrupt processing.
    
             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  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  Increase  the  buffer_limit  quota  when  starting  the  LANACP
             process  to  allow  more LAN devices to be enabled for downline
             load service.  CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM configures all  Ethernet  and
             FDDI  LAN  devices on the system for downline load service, and
             if there are many LAN devices present, LANACP  fails  to  start
             because of insufficient quota.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$STARTUP]LAN$STARTUP.COM
    
    
          o  Improve the boot messages, so that more details  are  available
             to diagnose boot failures.
    
             Images Affected:[SYS$LDR]SYS$EWBTDRIVER.EXE
             		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$ERBTDRIVER.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  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
              		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$ERBTDRIVER.EXE
              		 [SYSEXE]APB.EXE
              		 [SYSEXE]DEBUG_APB.EXE
    
    
          o  The embedded chip 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
             		 [SYS$LDR]SYS$ERBTDRIVER.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.   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  Emulex KGPSA Fibre Channel
    
              o  DEGPA-TA (Gigabit Ethernet)
    
              o  Adaptec AIC-7899
    
              o  PowerStorm 300/350
    
              o  3DLabs P2V
    
              o  3DLabs P3
    
              o  8255x Fast Ethernet
    
              o  DE600-AA i82558 100BaseTX
    
              o  DE600-AA i82559 100BaseTX
    
              o  DE602-AA i82558 100BaseTX
    
              o  DE602-TA i82558 100BaseTX
    
              o  DE602-FA i82558 100BaseFX
    
              o  DE602-BA 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.  To view these articles, open the appropriate
    product database and perform a query using either of the following
    search strings: 'VMS721_LAN-V0400' or 'VMS721_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 VMS721_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=V4.0
    
    
               -  De-assign the logicals assigned
    
            For  example,  a  sample   command   file   to   install   the
            VMS721_LAN-V0400 kit would be:
    
              $
              $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP TRUE
              $ DEFINE/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT TRUE
              $!
              $ PROD INSTALL VMS721H1_LAN/PROD=DEC/BASE=AXPVMS/VER=V4.0
              $!
              $ DEASSIGN/SYS NO_ASK$BACKUP
              $ DEASSIGN/SYS NO_ASK$REBOOT
              $!
              $ exit
    
    
      
      ==========================================================================
      |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
      | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | APB.EXE                    | 5F8974C5 | X-8             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:07:40.91  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DEBUG_APB.EXE              | 5F8974C5 | X-8             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:12:42.55  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | CSMACD.EXE                 | 8A5879B6 | X-17            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:25:17.43  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | FDDI.EXE                   | 6F128DCC | X-17            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:25:24.77  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EBDRIVER.EXE           | 0739FAE1 | X-12            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:28:10.97  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EIDRIVER.EXE           | BEAE8D59 | X-25            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:28:21.42  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$ERBTDRIVER.EXE         | 7B79173E | X-4             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:08:02.64  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$ERDRIVER.EXE           | CAEA11B4 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:18:27.93  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EW1000A.EXE            | E5436A32 | X-31            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:27:55.20  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EWBTDRIVER.EXE         | B7B5F745 | X-4             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:09:45.11  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EWDRIVER.EXE           | 6D7F0F75 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:19:33.11  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$DE500BADRIVER.EXE      | 1E76504E | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:20:00.96  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$EZDRIVER.EXE           | 411E371A | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:21:25.77  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FADRIVER.EXE           | 4170096A | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:22:04.12  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FCBTDRIVER.EXE         | 6CDAA88F | X-1             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:14:05.06  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FCDRIVER.EXE           | A459CBE8 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:22:24.19  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FRBTDRIVER.EXE         | 6D56215B | X-1             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:14:43.53  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FRDRIVER.EXE           | 27641BAB | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:22:44.55  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FWBTDRIVER.EXE         | 7250FCC8 | X-1             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:15:16.68  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FWDRIVER.EXE           | 3AA8254E | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:23:08.98  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$FXDRIVER.EXE           | 1E76D5C0 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:23:26.80  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$ICDRIVER.EXE           | 384EBF6D | X-39            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:24:00.68  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$IRDRIVER.EXE           | 0754EEC9 | X-39            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:23:42.07  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$IWDRIVER.EXE           | B5A76D5D | X-39            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:24:19.60  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN.EXE                | 91468293 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:05:07.78  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_ATM.EXE            | 391514B9 | X-27            | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:11:41.89  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_CSMACD.EXE         | 4DCCD7B8 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:07:57.28  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_FDDI.EXE           | 86067A98 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:14:35.95  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$LAN_TR.EXE             | FD741DD8 | X-3             | 12-JUL-2002  |
      |                                       |                 | 22:15:26.61  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
    
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