HP-UX IPv6 Porting Guide (September 2004)
Table Of Contents
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction
- 2 IPv6 Addressing
- 3 Data Structure Changes
- 4 Migrating Applications from IPv4 to IPv6
- 5 Overview of IPv4 and IPv6 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
- A IPv4 to IPv6 Quick Reference Guide

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Related Documents
HP Documentation
Additional information about HP-UX IPv6 transport can be found within docs.hp.com in the
networking and communications collection under IPv6 at:
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#IPv6
Other documents in this collection (besides this guide) include:
HP-UX IPv6 Transport Administrator’s Guide (TOUR 1.0)
HP-UX IPv6 Transport Administrator’s Guide (HP-UX 11i v2)
Other Documentation
For more information, refer to RFC 2533 “Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6”. The
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) RFCs can be located at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html.
B.11.22 HP-UX 11i v1.6 Intel Itanium
B.11.20 HP-UX 11i v1.5 Intel Itanium
B.11.11 HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC
Table 1 HP-UX 11i Releases (Continued)
Release
Identifier
Release Name
Supported Processor
Architecture