Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 Administrator's Guide

Chapter 2

Installing HP-UX Mobile IPv6

System Requirements

The following are the requirements for installing and running HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 on HP-UX 11i

version 1 and HP-UX 11i version 2.

Supported Operating Systems

HP-UX Mobile IPv6 is supported on the following 32- or 64-bit systems:

• HP-UX 11i version 1 PA-RISC servers

• HP-UX 11i version 2 Intel Itanium servers

HP-UX 11i version 1 Requirements

• The TOUR 2.0 depot is ~ 4.5 MB. After installation on HP-UX 11i version 1, TOUR 2.0 uses ~7.5 MB of

disk space, distributed as follows:

— /usr uses ~7 MB

— /var uses ~.5 MB

— /stand for building the kernel

• Memory: Approximately 200 Bytes for each Mobile Node

• At least one IPv6 ethernet interface on each system that will be a Home Agent. Correspondent Nodes can

use any type of IPv6 network interface—Home Agents must use ethernet interfaces.

Patch Requirements

The following patches are required on all HP-UX 11i version 1 systems running HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00.

If available, you can use more recently released patches that supersede and might include any of the patches

listed below. The patches listed below are the minimum required patches. You can download patches from the

HP IT Resource Center patch database at: http://www.itrc.hp.com:

• March 2003 Support Plus Patch Bundle (Quality Pack GOLDQPK11i)—B.11.11.0212.4

• PHCO_24287—patch for syslogd(1m)

• PHNE_27796—libnss_dns DNS backend patch

• PHNE_28895—cumulative ARPA Transport patch

• PHKL_29696—STREAMS functionality patch required for PHNE_29825

• PHNE_29825—STREAMS cumulative patch dependent on PHKL_29696

• PHCO_29287—libc cumulative patch

• PHCO_29328—libc manpage cumulative patch

NOTE HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 requires PHNE_30450 to use the nettl data-packet tracing and

formatting tool on HP-UX 11i version 1. HP-UX Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 does not require

PHNE_30450 for installation.