HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.01 Release Notes

What Is Included in HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.01?

Chapter 7

Features

HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.01 provides the following features:

• IETF Standards Conformance

• Compatibility with HP-UX IPSec A.02.00

• Route Optimization

• Return Routability Procedure

• Dynamic Home Agent Address Discovery

• Prefix Discovery

• Multi-Processor Scaling

• Administration and Configuration File Tools

• nettl and netfmt Tool Support

• Multi-Vendor Interoperability and Conformance Testing

The following sections provide a brief description of each of the HP-UX Mobile IPv6 features

listed above. Refer to the HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 Administrator’s Guide for more

information on each feature.

IETF Standards Conformance

HP-UX Mobile IPv6 is based on the following IETF standards that can be found at

http://www.ietf.org:

• RFC 3375 (Mobility Support in IPv6)

• RFC 3776 (Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling between Mobile Nodes and Home

Agents)

Compatibility with HP-UX IPSec A.02.00

HP-UX IPSec A.02.00 secures the Mobile IPv6 traffic between the Mobile Node and Home

Agent. You can download HP-UX IPSec A.02.00 from HP Software depot,

http://www.software.hp.com.

Route Optimization

In most cases, the Mobile Node and Correspondent Node communicate using Route

Optimization, which improves data transmission rates between the two nodes. With Route

Optimization, the Mobile Node and Correspondent Node communicate directly with each