QuickSpecs
IPV6
Tru64 UNIX extends support of IPv6 with additional application enablers (latest industry standard APIs for application
portability and improved user support with additional IPv6 tools to help with the transition to IPv6), additional
interoperability/coexistence enablers between IPv4 and IPv6 (including tunneling and transition mechanisms), and improved
Performance/Scalability/Quality.
IP Security (IPsec)
Tru64 UNIX provides comprehensive protection for IPv4 and IPv6 network traffic through support of the IPsec protocol suite.
Encryption, data-origin authentication, data integrity protection, and compression of encrypted data is available through the
AH, ESP, and IPCOMP protocols, supported in both tunnel and transport modes. Encryption can be performed using the
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Data Encryption Standard (DES and 3DES). Authentication can be performed
using the SHA-1 and MD5 algorithms.
The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol is fully supported for authentication and key exchange. Authentication can be via
pre-shared keys, or through RSA or DSA certificates.
IPsec security policy is managed through the SysMan graphical user interface. IPsec protection cannot be applied to traffic
which uses the cluster alias feature of the TruCluster product.
Mobile IP
Tru64 UNIX provides Mobile IPv6 Correspondent Node functionality based on the Internet draft
Mobility Support in IPv6
,
draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-15.txt
TCP/IP
Tru64 UNIX allows for TCP/IP network communications over supported network devices. The TCP/IP protocol suite is
implemented in the socket framework.
Sockets
Tru64 UNIX provides sockets that are based on the Berkeley UNIX Operating System structure, which provides a framework
for I/O over a network.
Streams
Tru64 UNIX provides SVR4-compatible STREAMS. Like sockets, STREAMS provides a framework for character I/O to and
from user space to kernel networking protocols.
X/Open Transport Interface (XTI)
The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) is an extension to the System V STREAMS user space interface called Transport
Level Interface (TLI). This interface is thread-safe.
Data Link Bridge (DLB)
Tru64 UNIX provides a DLPI-compatible interface into the non-STREAMS (BSD) driver environment. This interface does not
support complete DLPI semantics. The DLB interface is the preferred interface for STREAMS modules to access the BSD-
based datalink services.
QuickSpecs
HP Tru64 UNIX Operating System Version V5.1B
Networking
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