ans usage guidelines and limitations
using pci hot plug and ans
requirements
you need a pci hot plug controller driver, such as intelhpcd for the intel hot plug controller, and the latest unixware 7.1.x or open unix 8 hot plug patch. (for 7.1.1, use ptf7604e, and for 7.1.0, use ptf7428d or later).
if you already have the above packages installed, remove them before installing the new drivers.
1 install the necessary drivers (ddi8 drivers for adapters and ans).
2 reboot the system.
3 configure your initial network configuration.
4 install the hot plug controller driver and the unixware/open unix hot plug patch.
5 reboot to rebuild the kernel.
using hot plug with ans team members
1 set normal team configurations using the network configuration manager.
2 to replace a member adapter: remove it from the team using the network configuration manager, power off the slot using the scoadmin hot plug manager, remove the adapter, insert the new adapter, power on the slot using the scoadmin hot plug manager, and add the adapter to the team using the network configuration manager.
limitations of dynamic configurations in hot plug computers
when ans is used on a computer in which hot plug is enabled, the following limitations apply (due to the way the network configuration manager works in these cases):
3 building a team and adding virtual adapters require a reboot of the computer.
4 in order to configure the ipx/spx protocol over a virtual adapter, the user should first configure tcp/ip over it, reboot the system, and only then add the ipx/spx protocol (the tcp/ip protocol can then be removed).
these limitations can be avoided by temporarily disabling hot plug before doing anything that will create virtual adapter resources in the network configuration manager (i.e. creating a new team or adding vlans when modifying a team). hot plug can be temporarily disabled using 'modadmin -u [hpcd_module]' where hpcd_module is hpcd/intelhpcd or any other module name used for your hot plug controller driver. hot plug can be enabled again after configuring all virtual adapters by using 'modadmin -l [hpcd_module]'.