HP-UX IPv6 Porting Guide (February 2007)

What’s In This Docuent

The guide is organized as follows:

1Introduction

2 IPv6 Addressing

3 Data Structure Changes

4 Migrating Applications from IPv4 to IPv6

5 Overview of IPv6 and IPv4 Call Set-up

6 Function Calls Converting Names to Addresses

7 Function Calls Converting IP addresses to Names

8 Reading Error Messages

9 Freeing Memory

10 Converting Binary and Text Addresses

11 Testing for Scope and Type of IPv6 addresses using Macros

12 Identifying Local Interface Names and Indexes

13 Configuring or Querying an Interface using IPv6 ioctl() Function Calls

14 Verifying IPv6 Installation

15 Sample Client/Server Programs

Appendix A IPv4 to IPv6 Quick-Reference Guide

HP-UX Release Names and Release Identifiers

Each HP-UX 11i release has an associated release name and release identifier. The uname (1)

command with the -r option returns the release identifier. This table shows the releases

available for HP-UX 11i.

Table 1 HP-UX 11i Releases

Release

Identifier

Release Name

Supported Processor

Architecture

B.11.31 HP-UX 11i v3 Intel

Itanium

B.11.23 HP-UX 11i v2 Intel Itanium