Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 Release Notes

HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 Release Notes
What’s Included in HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00
Chapter6
Features
HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 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 documents at http://www.ietf.org:
• Mobility Support in IPv6
• Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents
Compatibility with HP-UX IPSec A.02.00
Available soon at HP’s Software depot, http://www.software.hp.com, HP-UX IPSec A.02.00
can secure the Mobile IPv6 traffic between the Mobile Node and Home Agent.
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
other and bypass the Home Agent. The Correspondent Node sends packets directly to the
Mobile Node’s Care-of Address, and the Mobile Node sends packets directly to the
Correspondent Node.