Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v1 Manufacturing Part Number: 5990-8575 May 2004 United States © Copyright 2004 © Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P. All rights reserved.
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Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes The information in this document applies to Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR 2.0) for HP-UX 11i v1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Announcement Announcement Transport functionality is typically 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 of major HP-UX releases. Later versions of TOUR completely supersede previous TOUR versions.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version What Is in This Version TOUR 2.0 includes the following components: • HP-UX Transport Enhancements (IPv4 and IPv6) • HP-UX Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) enhancements (PPPoE and PPPv6) • HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 Except for some transport enhancements (described below) the components and features in TOUR 2.0 are supported on both HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2. This document focuses on what is new in TOUR 2.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version • IPv6 Transition Mechanisms Enhancements: TOUR 2.0 provides several IPv6 transition mechanism changes from those previously offered. Highlights of these changes are provided below. There have been no changes to the dual-stack mechanism, but several important changes to the tunneling mechanisms. The following RFCs are supported in TOUR 2.0 (the IETF documents listed below are available at http://www.ietf.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version — HP-UX Server can be configured as a “6to4” router: Starting with TOUR 2.0, the HP-UX server can perform the role of a router in a “6to4” configuration. Prior to TOUR 2.0, the HP-UX server was only able to perform the role of a host in a “6to4” configuration. — IP6-in-IP6 and IP-in-IP6 Support: Starting with TOUR 2.0, two additional tunneling types are supported, IP6-in-IP6 and IP-in-IP6.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version — Conformance to RFC 2472: RFC 2472, “IP Version 6 over PPP,” which defines how to transmit IPv6 packets over PPP links. It also describes how to form IPv6 link-local addresses on PPP links and to negotiate the type compression protocol to be used for compressing or decompressing IPv6 headers transmitted over serial lines. — Command-line options have been added to the existing pppd daemon. In TOUR 2.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version • Multi-Processor Scaling • Compatibility with HP-UX IPSec A.02.00 • Multi-Vendor Interoperability Conformance and Testing • nettl Tool Support • Administration and Configuration File Tools 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.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version Return Routability Procedure When Mobile Nodes receive data-packets from Correspondent Nodes routed through the Home Agent, it indicates the Correspondent Node does not have binding information with the Mobile Node’s current Care-of Address.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes What Is in This Version nettl Tool Support HP enhanced the nettl data packet tracing and formatting tool to support HP-UX Mobile IPv6. You can use the nettl tool to trace and format Mobile IPv6 Mobility Header and ICMPv6 messages after installing the patch shown below. You can download the patch from the HP IT Resource Center patch database at http://www.itrc.hp.com: • PHNE_30450 for HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes System Requirements System Requirements This section lists the resources needed and the software requirements for installing and running TOUR 2.0 on HP-UX 11i v1. Supported Operating Systems TOUR 2.0 is supported on the following 32- or 64-bit systems: • HP-UX 11i Version 1.0 (B.11.11) PA-RISC servers • HP-UX 11i Version 2.0 (B.11.23) Intel Itanium servers Minimum System Resources for HP-UX 11i v1 HP-UX 11i v1 TOUR 2.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes System Requirements • PHNE_27796 (or later)- libnss_dns DNS backend patch • PHNE_28895 (or later)- cumulative ARPA Transport patch • PHKL_29696 (or later)- Needed for STREAMS Patch • PHNE_29825 (or later)- STREAMS patch • PHCO_29287 (or later)- libc cumulative patch • PHCO_29328 (or later) - libc manpage cumulative patch • PHNE_30450 (or later) - nettl patch for TOUR 2.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Installing TOUR 2.0 Installing TOUR 2.0 This section includes information on obtaining and installing TOUR 2.0. It includes information needed before and after the TOUR 2.0 installation. NOTE TOUR 2.0 is not compatible with some versions of IPSec. Before installing TOUR 2.0, refer to the section titled “TOUR 2.0 and IPSec” on page 17. Installation Instructions To install TOUR 2.0, complete the following steps: Step 1.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Installing TOUR 2.0 Notice that the target selection specified in the swinstall example is “TOUR”, not “TOUR2”,since the TOUR 2.0 product bundle name is “TOUR”. The product bundle version reflects the version change from 1.0 to 2.0. The Mobile IPv6 product is optional. If you do not want to install Mobile IPv6, use interactive swinstall and deselect the Mobile IPv6 product.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Installing TOUR 2.0 If you need to remove TOUR 2.0, be aware of the following: • The save area under /usr/contrib/TOUR/save_area must be intact (after installing TOUR 2.0, files in this directory must not be removed). • Removing TOUR 2.0 will not back you out to a previous version of HP-UX 11i v1 IPv6 (TOUR 1.0 or IPv6NCF11i) if one had been installed. Removing TOUR 2.0 restores the (default) HP-UX 11i v1 transport software.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Installing TOUR 2.0 If you attempt to install or remove a PPP patch, similar messages are displayed. TOUR 2.0 and IPSec TOUR 2.0 is only compatible with, and is a software requirement for, (when available) IPSec (J4256AA) version A.02.00 or greater. It is not compatible with earlier versions of IPSec. If you try to install TOUR 2.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Installing TOUR 2.0 • WU-FTPD 2.6.1 (or later) • Sendmail 8.11.1 • BIND 9.2.0 However, these IPv6-enhanced HP-UX 11i v1 Internet Services are not included in TOUR 2.0 (nor were they included in TOUR 1.0 or IPv6NCF11i). Instead, these products are available as separate web releases from the HP Software Depot at http://www.software.hp.com. Download these web releases if you want to use FTP, Sendmail, or DNS server to handle IPv6 addresses.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Related Documentation Related Documentation The following documents, available on http://www.docs.hp.com, provide additional information on TOUR 2.0 and its components: • HP-UX IPv6 Transport Administrator’s Guide for TOUR 2.0 • HP-UX IPv6 Porting Guide • HP-UX IPv6 Transition Mechanisms (White Paper) • HP-UX PPPoE/v6 Administrator’s Guide for TOUR 2.0 • HP-UX PPP Enhancements - PPPoE and PPPv6 (White Paper) • HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Known Problems and Limitations Known Problems and Limitations This section includes information on known problem and limitations in TOUR 2.0 and its components. Known Problems This section contains information about a known problem in HP-UX 11i v1 TOUR 2.0. • Socket Caching and IPv6 Usage Problem: When socket caching is enabled, applications opening an IPv6 socket may get an IPv4 socket, which will result in an IPv6 ioctl() failure.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Known Problems and Limitations The who -R, last -R, and finger -R commands have not been enhanced for IPv6. Thus, the following cases are observed when using these commands: — The who -R and last -R commands output displays a truncated IP address when IPv6 on TOUR 2.0 is installed and the user logs in remotely using an IP address instead of a hostname.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version This section contains information on fixes available in TOUR 2.0 for TOUR 2.0 components. HP-UX Transport Fixes TOUR 2.0 for HP-UX 11i v1 includes transport (IPv4 and IPv6) fixes up to PHNE_29887. In addition, it includes the following fixes: SR Number Problem Description 8606211448 There is an interoperability problem between nettl and IPSec.
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version 8606310867 Multicasting may get disabled under certain circumstances. 8606311142 An unexpected RST is generated during connection establishment. 8606311531 System may get Data Page Fault panic in ire6_lookup_src(). 8606312460 In some cases, arp -a and arp -A may not show all ARP cache entries. 8606312501 Data page fault in tcp_detach(). 8606313270 System panic in ip6_nd_dad_failure().
Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version 8606337569 Under some conditions, HP-UX may send an ICMP Port Unreachable error message in reply to a UDP unicast request. 8606338847 Some applications doing an ftp transfer over a TCP connection may hang. 8606339858 Execution of ndd -a or ndd -set sockets tcp_conn_strategy may cause an error message to appear on the console, even though the command succeeded.
