HP-UX 11i March 2002 Release Notes

Internet and Networking Services
IPv6 Available on Software Pack
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• Network-Interface Administration Utilities for both IPv4 and IPv6:
ifconfig
netstat
ping
route
ndd
traceroute
ndp (a new IPv6-only utility for neighbor-discovery; ndp is similar to the arp utility used with
IPv4)
• Support in /etc/hosts for both IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses. Look-up policies for IPv6 are
identical to those of IPv4.
• IPv6 Name/Address Resolution for Name Service Switch: new entry (ipnodes) in
/etc/nsswitch.conf.
• IPv6-enhanced Internet Services:
— Services included with the HP-UX 11i IPv6 software product bundle:
inetd, internet daemon
telnet
r* commands
name and address resolution resolver routines
inetd.sec over IPv6 is also supported
— Services not included with the HP-UX 11i IPv6 software product bundle:
WU-FTPD 2.6.1
BIND 9.2
Sendmail 8.11.1
DHCPv6
(Although these services are not part of the HP-UX 11i IPv6 software product
bundle, they are available independently from HP’s Software Depot, at
http://software.hp.com.)
• The Nettl utilities (nettl, nettladm, netfmt) have been enhanced to trace and
filter new IPv6 subsystems.
• Where needed, IPv6-enhancements have been made to some C2 Audit and HP-UX
commands (for example - lp, syslogd, rlpdaemon). There are some known
problems with the who, last and finger commands. These are documented in the
HP-UX IPv6 Release Notes (T1306-90001).
• DCE Clients support.
• IPv6-enhanced libc.
Identifying IPv6 Systems
Systems with the HP-UX 11i IPv6 software product bundle installed can be identified by
running:
swlist -l bundle IPv6NCF11i
where the following will be returned:
IPv6NCF11i B.11.11.0109.5D IPv6 11i product bundle