HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Commands and System Calls
NetTL Command
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NetTL Command
The Network Tracing and Logging (NetTL) facility gathers information about network
activity and network products. It is used to log important events and gather trace
information for networking products.
Summary of Change
Support for Mobile IPv4, control script changes and mbuf obsolescence changes. The
nettladm functionality is not available on IA in HP-UX 11i v1.6.
Details of Change
New or changed options or features to the nettl command include the following:
Support for Mobile IPv4: The purpose of this change is to enable nettl to
format Mobile IPv4 information in IP,UDP and
ICMP packets. Without this change, the NetTL
formatter is not be able to extract and display Mobile
IP information embedded in IP,UDP and ICMP
packets. However the Mobile IP information remains
part of the data payload.
Control script changes: The single fileset NETTL-RUN is split into 2 filesets
(NETTL-RUN and NETTL2-RUN) to allow for
delivery of both IPF and PA-RISC versions of files in
the same fileset. Due to this the control scripts are
changed as follows:
• NETTL-RUN - preinstall, unconfigure, verify.
• NETTL2-RUN- preinstall, unconfigure.
mbuf obsolescence changes: The purpose of this change is to remove all mbuf
related references from the nettl code as HP-UX no
longer support mbufs as of HP-UX 11i v1.6. In view of
this, nettl is not able to support subsystems which
use mbuf’s while tracing from HP-UX 11i v1.6
onwards.
Impact
There are no impacts.
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.
Performance
There is no impact to performance.