This document describes IRIS HIPPI products for IRIX 6.4 (or later).
The IRIS® HIPPI product is a network interface controller board (hardware) and driver and utilities (software) providing data communication through the High–Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI). The product provides copper-based HIPPI-PH connectivity for CHALLENGE® L and XL, and Onyx® platforms, and fiber-optic based HIPPI-Serial connectivity for the OriginServer™ series and Onyx2™ platforms.
The IRIS HIPPI hardware must be installed by a Silicon Graphics system support engineer (SSE) or other person trained by Silicon Graphics. The installation instructions (shipped, in a sealed envelope, with each IRIS HIPPI board) contains complete details for hardware installation. The seal on the envelope must not be broken by anyone except the SSE. For Challenge and Onyx systems, use the IRIS HIPPI Board Installation Instructions; for Origin™ and Onyx2 systems, use IRIS HIPPI-Serial XIO Board Installation Instructions.
Installation and configuration of the software on all platforms can be done by customers and/or SSEs. This document, IRIS HIPPI Administrator's Guide (shipped with the IRIS HIPPI software), provides software configuration details. The online IRIS HIPPI Release Notes provide software installation instructions and late-occurring information about the product.
IRIS HIPPI supports the following upper layer applications:
standard IRIX™ applications:
For Internet (IP) networking, IRIS HIPPI supports IP over HIPPI-LE in conformance with RFC 1374 guidelines. All IP applications can use the IP–over–HIPPI interface, just as they would IP over Ethernet or FDDI.
IRIS HIPPI utilities:
IRIS HIPPI includes utilities for monitoring, maintaining, and testing the IRIS HIPPI subsystem.
customer-developed applications:
IRIS HIPPI provides an application programming interface (API) that customers can use to develop their own upper–layer applications (ULPs). See the online IRIS HIPPI API Programmer's Guide (shipped with the IRIS HIPPI software) for details.
This guide uses the following stylistic conventions:
screen display
Indicates system output, such as responses to commands that you see on the screen. Code samples, screen displays, and file contents also appear in this font.
user input
Indicates exact text that you must enter at a command line, such as commands, options, and arguments to commands.
variable
Indicates generic, place-holding variable names. Can indicate a user input variable, where you must replace the variable with text that you select.
<xx>
Indicates keys on the keyboard that you press; for example, press <Enter> means press only the key labeled Enter.
physical label
Indicates a label for a piece of hardware (for example, a pin, a wire, a port). Can also indicate the signal on a wire or pin.
command
Designates command and utility names.
file name
Indicates file names and file name suffixes.
[ ]
Encloses optional command arguments.
...
Denotes omitted material or indicates that the preceding optional items may appear more than once in succession.
Silicon Graphics, Inc., provides a comprehensive product support and maintenance program for its products. If you are in North America and would like support for your Silicon Graphics-supported products, contact the Technical Assistance Center at 1-800-800-4SGI. If you are outside North America, contact the Silicon Graphics subsidiary or authorized distributor in your country.
Silicon Graphics maintains a World Wide Web page from which you can retrieve the latest versions of many of the company's documents, and from which you can obtain instructions for ordering printed (paper-copy) versions of online documents. Using your Web browser, open the following URL:
To locate the latest versions of IRIS HIPPI documents (including this one), make the following selections:
Click on the “Customer Support” option
Select the Technical Publications section
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