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HP Int egr it y C om put er S y s tems HP -UX 1 1i v2 to 1 1i v3 Netw or k Dr i v er M igr ati on Gui de HP P ar t Number : 5 99 1 -7 9 5 5 P ublished: E0 20 7.
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Abo ut T his Doc ument This manual lists and describes the changes betw een HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 that affect a network driver migration. It also provides information on how to migrate your network driv er from HP-UX 11i v2 to 11i v3. The document printing date and part number indicate the document’ s current edition.
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Email & Inte rnet R esour ces Interface program and developer resource materials are av ailable at the following locations: • Interface Program E-mail at: interface@fc.
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1 Ov er v ie w The HP-UX 1 1i v2 to 1 1i v3 Network Driver Migration Guide provides 3rd party developers a resource to understand the HP-UX network stack architecture and network API changes betw een HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 and an overview for migrating netw ork drivers from HP-UX 11i v2 to 11i v3.
Figur e 1 - 1 HP -DLP I LAN Driver Ar chitecture PC I Bu s HP- DL PI to Dr ive r In ter f ac e DLP I 2.0 AP I wit h HP Ex te ns io ns vi a STR EA MS In te r fa ces Et he rn et Ca rd HP -D L PI I nf r .
• Inform HP-DLPI each time the MAC address changes. This is required for LAN commands to display the current MAC address. • Support specific ioctls, standard DLPI primitives, and specific HP extensions of DLPI primitives. This ensures the driver will w ork with standard HP-UX LAN commands and SMH.
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2 Nati v e S TRE AM S DLP I L AN Dr i v er M igr ati on The dl_hp_create_info_t data structure that is used during registration of the driver with HP-DLPI has been extended with the following new fields.
were introduced in HP-UX 11.00, the semantics of the ioctls has not changed. How ev er , the information provided to the DLS user has changed. The interface w as originally intended for IP only , but it is DLS-user independent in HP-UX 11i v3.
3 Non -Nati v e HP -D LP I L AN Dr i v er M i gr ation A non-native Netw orking driv er relies on the HP-DLPI layer to interface with the transport lay er .
sample driver under the misc/ncweb directory in the ENET driv er sources. HP recommends that you use this shared library as a starting point instead of writing one from scratch.
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