Appendix E. Hot Plug Support; Hot Add; Hot Swap - IBM Netfinity 10/100 Ethernet Adapters Installation Manual

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Appendix E. Hot Plug Support

The IBM Netﬁnity 10/100 Ethernet Adapters are enabled for use in selected servers

equipped with hot plug capability, including IBM Netﬁnity Hot Plug capable-servers,

running Windows NT 4.0 and NetWare 5.0, 4.2, or 4.1x.

For NetWare Hot Plug, make sure you have the latest NetWare support pack before

setting up hot plug. Refer to your server's documentation for more information on

setting up and using NetWare Hot Plug.

For Windows NT 4.0 Hot Plug with IBM Netﬁnity Hot Plug capable-servers, the IBM

Netﬁnity 10/100 Ethernet Adapters, at this time, support the Hot Add and Hot Swap

functions.

With the server running, an adapter can be installed to an open hot plug PCI slot

without having to shutdown and reboot the server. Multiple adapters can be hot

added to multiple open hot plug PCI slots.

With the server running and with an adapter fault tolerant team in place( also known

as a fail-over team), if one of the adapters in the team fails, you can swap the

failing adapter with a new adapter without having to shut down or reboot the server.

For details on how to set up and run IBM Hot Plug, follow the Readme and

instructions in the Hotplug directory of the Installation and Drivers CD shipped with

the adapter

You can also visit the IBM Support web site at:

http://www.networking.ibm.com/support

Notes:

1. If you replace an adapter in a hot plug slot, do not place the removed adapter

2. Hot Swap is only for replacing a failing adapter in an existing adapter team in

back into the same network until the server has rebooted. The two adapters

may have the same Ethernet address and create a resource conﬂict.

your server. If you form a new adapter team, the server will have to be rebooted

for Hot Swap to work with the new adapter team.

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