As members of IBM's AIX/VIOS support team, we encounter some common questions or observe a few pervasive issues. Not surprisingly, these issues vary over time based on currently supported adapters and code levels and related information is not captured in existing AIX/VIOS documentation. E.g. Currently there are 10+ different ethernet drivers available on Power and there isn't an easy way to map APARs with ethernet adapters/drivers.
To help ourselves and our customers, we have decided to create a short blog (a.k.a. NetBITS) to document the current pervasive APARs, network performance, and data collection steps for AIX/VIOS Network Protocols/Device Drivers related issues that our support team is working on. Based on past experience, we expect to create new versions of the NetBITs blog (to be captured as a new document) a couple of times each year. Refer to the listing below for current and past versions of the NetBITS documents.
We hope this information will help our customers expedite problem resolution.
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