Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Edition 1 Manufacturing Part Number: 5187-4158 July 2003 United States © Copyright 2003 © Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P. All rights reserved.
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Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Announcement Announcement Typically, Transport functionality is delivered as part of the HP-UX Operating System. Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) is an additional, fully supported, web release that delivers Transport functionality and other networking features independently from major HP-UX releases. TOUR uses an overlay model to install new features.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version What Is in This Version TOUR 1.0 includes the following components: • Base HP-UX Transport with IPv4 enhancements and IPv6 • Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) enhancements (PPPv6 and PPPoE) • Router Advertisement Daemon Features Overview The features of the components bundled within TOUR 1.0 are as follows: • IPv4 Features: TOUR 1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version MLD is automatically enabled when an IPv6 interface is initialized. The Management Information Base (MIB) for MLD, based on RFC 3019, “IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol,” is also supported. NOTE In TOUR 1.0, only the host (listener) part of MLD is supported. — FDDI Link Support. — MC/ServiceGuard Enablement. In addition, TOUR 1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version — Support for IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses: The /etc/hosts file now supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The /etc/hosts file contains IP addresses and corresponding host names. The file can contain IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for the same host. Lookup policies for IPv6 addresses are identical to that of IPv4. — Name Service Switch: The configuration file for the name service switch is /etc/nsswitch.conf (nsswitch.conf(4)).
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version — New command-line options to the existing pppd daemon: pppd now supports the following IPv6 options: Table 1 Category Daemon Management Options Command-Line Options Option Description exec6 exec-cmd Pass a script as an argument to this option. This is invoked when the IPv6 interface appears. This passes a script that, in turn, invokes rtradvd.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version Table 1 Category IP Options • Command-Line Options (Continued) Option Description ipv6 local-ifid, remote-ifid Specify two 64-bit IPv6 interface identifiers separated by a comma, the interface identifier of this machine, and the expected interface identifier of the remote machine, after IPv6. Both the interface identifiers are optional. However, the remote interface identifier is required if auto option is specified.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Installation Information Installation Information This section includes information on installing TOUR 1.0 on HP-UX 11i v1. In addition, it includes information needed before and after the TOUR 1.0 installation. NOTE TOUR 1.0 is not compatible with any version of IPSec (products J4255AA or J4256AA). Therefore, before installing TOUR 1.0 on HP-UX 11i v1, see “TOUR 1.0 and IPSec Incompatibility” on page 14. System Requirements The TOUR 1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Installation Information NOTE Future versions of Quality Pack (GOLDQPK11i) may include these four patches. In this case, you will not have to retrieve the patches individually. Step 2. Complete the registration form with appropriate information. Step 3. Download the TOUR 1.0 software to a directory, for example, /tmp/TOUR.depot. Step 4. Use swinstall to install TOUR 1.0.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Installation Information • Approximately, 1 MB is used in "/var". NOTE The depot file that contains TOUR 1.0 is less than 4.5 MB. NOTE The disk space information mentioned in this section does not include the disk space requirements for prerequisite patches. Configuration Information After installing TOUR 1.0, the telnet, remsh, rcp, and ftp (if WU-FTPD 2.6.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Installation Information Internet Services Product Information The following IPv6-capable Internet Services products are included with HP-UX 11i IPv6 packaged with TOUR 1.0: • inetd, Internet daemon • telnet • r* commands • name and address resolution resolver routines • inetd.sec over IPv6 The following Internet Services products have been IPv6-enhanced: • WU-FTPD 2.6.1 (or later) • Sendmail 8.11.1 • BIND 9.2.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Installation Information ERROR: The Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) is already installed. HP-UX cumulative ARPA Transport patches can NOT be removed because removing them would corrupt TOUR. If you must remove this patch PHNE_28497, then first remove TOUR. NOTE If you attempt to install or remove a PPP patch, similar messages are displayed. TOUR 1.0 and IPSec Incompatibility TOUR 1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Related Documentation Related Documentation The following documents, available on docs.hp.com, provide additional information on TOUR 1.0 and its components: • HP-UX IPv6 Transport Administrator’s Guide for TOUR 1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Known Problems and Limitations Known Problems and Limitations TOUR 1.0 includes the following known problem and limitations: Known Problem The ipnodes Entry Configuration If you have set a hosts entry in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, you must set a similar ipnodes entry in this file. You have to perform this configuration even if you do not use the IPv6 addresses. NOTE You cannot use NIS or NIS+ on the ipnodes entry.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Known Problems and Limitations • Multihomed Host Limitation On a host with multiple physical network interfaces, more than one interface should not be configured with IPv6 addresses in the absence of a router that advertises prefixes. If multiple physical interfaces are configured with IPv6 addresses, and if router advertisement is not received on any interface, the host cannot identify the interface through which it has to send packets.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 1.0 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version TOUR 1.0 includes Transport (IPv4 and IPv6) fixes up to PHNE_28895. In addition, it includes the following fixes for IPv6: SR Number Problem Description 8606232541 Syntax error for route(1m) in /sbin/init.d/net-ipv6. 8606290866 In 64-bit mode, the if_nametoindex() call incorrectly returns ENXIO (errno 6) for a valid configured interface.
