LAN channel station device driver

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The LAN channel station device driver (LCS device driver) supports Open Systems Adapters (OSA) features in non-QDIO mode up to OSA-Express4S.

The LCS device driver supports OSA-Express features for the IBM® Z mainframes that are relevant to SUSE Linux™ Enterprise Server 12 SP4 as shown in Table 1.

Table 1. The LCS device driver supported OSA-Express features
First column lists the OSA-Express features. The remaining columns list the mainframe models.
Feature	z14 and z14 ZR1	z13® and z13s®	zEC12 and zBC12	z196 and z114
OSA-Express6S	1000Base-T Ethernet	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
OSA-Express5S	1000Base-T Ethernet	1000Base-T Ethernet	Not supported	Not supported
OSA-Express4	1000Base-T Ethernet	1000Base-T Ethernet	1000Base-T Ethernet	Not supported
OSA-Express3	Not supported	Not supported	1000Base-T Ethernet	1000Base-T Ethernet
OSA-Express2	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported	1000Base-T Ethernet

The LCS device driver supports automatic detection of Ethernet connections. The LCS device driver can be used for Internet Protocol, version 4 (IPv4) only.