Release Notes for LYNX DMV178 FDDI Driver
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Version      : b1.1
Release date : 2000-07-19


1. Getting Started ( Dynamic loading of driver )
   ============================================= 

1.1. Boot LynxOS.
1.2. Copy the files ccFddiLynx178.a and fddi_info to the target 
1.3. Install the device with drinstall
1.4. Start the device with devinstall 
1.3. Set the IP address using ifconfig.
1.4. Confirm the FDDI connection using ping. 

An example is shown below (NOTE: This example assumes there is already a NIC on the FDDI LAN which
                                 has been set up with an IP address of 10.0.0.1):

      -> drinstall -c ccFddiLynx178.a
         ccFddiLynx178.a 35
      -> devinstall -c -d 35 ../../src/fddi_info 
         fddi_info0 c 58 0
      -> ifconfig fddi0 10.0.0.5
      -> ifconfig fddi0
         fddi0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX>
                 inet 10.0.0.5 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
      -> ping 10.0.0.1
         PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
         64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=2.357 ms
         64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.434 ms
         64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.434 ms
         64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.434 ms
         64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.434 ms


1.5 See LynxOS documentation for building driver into kernel.(Static instalation of driver )


2. Known Issues with the Current Release
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   (* = outstanding issue)

2.1  * Support for one card only at this stage.
2.2  * No multicast support 
2.3  * Static Instalation not tested 
2.4  * Driver API not implemented
2.5  * Packets fragmented by TCP at ETHER_MTU and not FDDI_MTU size
 

3. Revision History
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b1.0 - 2000-04-13 - GJK
       First release.
b1.1 - 2000-07-19 - GJK
       Upgraded source to support DMV178(PPC) and X86.