Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes (April 2004)

Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) 2.0 Release Notes
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Dynamic Home Agent Address Discovery
With Dynamic Home Agent Address Discovery, a Mobile Node only needs a home network
prefix configured and it can dynamically find the address of a Home Agent on its home
network when it needs to register its Care-of Address.
Prefix Discovery
Prefix Discovery allows a Mobile Node to get network prefix information about its Home
Network and to configure its Home Address if needed. The Home Agent monitors prefix
information from Router Advertisement messages on the Home Network. The Mobile Node
can request prefix information by sending a Mobile Prefix Solicitation message to the Home
Agent.
Multi-Processor Scaling
HP designed and implemented HP-UX Mobile IPv6 for multi-processor scaling in
environments using high-end systems supporting a large number of Mobile Nodes. Scaling
the number of processors increases the number of Kernel-module instances processing IPv6
mobility message headers on the system.
Compatibility with HP-UX IPSec A.02.00
Available soon at the HP Software Depot, http://www.software.hp.com, HP-UX IPSec
A.02.00 can secure the Mobile IPv6 traffic between the Mobile Node and Home Agent.
Multi-Vendor Interoperability Conformance and Testing
HP tested HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 in multi-vendor environments at the 2004
Connectathon interoperability event. HP also successfully tested HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00
with TAHI conformance suites.
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_30451 for HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)
Administration and Configuration File Tools
HP-UX Mobile IPv6 includes a command line administration tool, mip6admin, to administer
the HP-UX Mobile IPv6 kernel-resident STREAMS module. mip6admin performs several
critical functions including; starting, stopping, and dynamically-reconfiguring mip6mod.