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The VC-Enet version 1.15 firmware includes the following features:
• Smart Link
A network enabled with Smart Link automatically drops link to the server ports if all uplink ports lose
link. This feature can be useful for certain server network teaming (bonding) configurations.
• Native VLAN
Identifying a network on a shared uplink set as the native VLAN causes all untagged incoming
packets to be placed on this network. All outgoing packets are VLAN tagged. Only one network can
be designated as the native VLAN.
• Speed setting on uplink ports
Selecting a speed of 10 or 100 Mb disables autonegotiation and forces the speed to the selected
value. Selecting a speed of 1Gb forces autonegotiation to advertise only 1Gb support. For all speed
settings, regardless of forced speed or use of autonegotiation, only Full Duplex mode is supported.
This setting requires all connected ports to have matching speed and duplex configurations to
operate correctly.
• Active/Standby uplink port status
The status of each uplink port connected to an external switch is displayed to indicate whether it is
actively passing traffic or is functioning in a standby role.
• MAC cache failover speedup
This feature alerts switches attached to a VC-Enet module when a link previously in standby mode
becomes active, reducing the time it takes for the attached switches to begin passing traffic over the
newly active link.
For additional information, see the Virtual Connect user guide on the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/documentation
).