Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 Administrator's Guide

Chapter 4

Creating Mobile IPv6 Kernel Module Conﬁguration Files with the mip6conﬁg Tool

Overview

HP-UX Mobile IPv6 includes a command line tool, mip6config, to create, edit, and verify mip6mod Mobile

IPv6 conﬁguration ﬁles. Using mip6conﬁg can help avoid common errors that occur when manually editing

ﬁles, such as “typos” that create invalid entries. The mip6conﬁg tool veriﬁes the mip6mod conﬁguration

parameters you enter and displays error messages after detecting invalid syntax or values. The mip6conﬁg

tool requires super-user permissions and interfaces with /etc/mip6.conf by default.

NOTE Use the man mip6config command to view the mip6conﬁg (1M) manpage.

To use the mip6conﬁg tool, start a mip6conﬁg session from the command line and use mip6conﬁg commands.

The mip6conﬁg tool offers the following two types of commands:

• commands for managing mip6conﬁg sessions

• commands for conﬁguring mip6mod parameters in conﬁguration ﬁles

The mip6conﬁg session commands are for managing the mip6conﬁg session, for example; writing mip6conﬁg

session information to a conﬁguration ﬁle, or getting help information on mip6conﬁg commands. The

mip6mod parameter commands are for conﬁguring mip6mod parameters in conﬁguration ﬁles. The following

is a list of the groups of mip6mod parameters:

• mip6mod General Parameters

• mip6mod Binding Cache Parameters

• mip6mod Error Rate Parameters

The mip6conﬁg tool offers the following three commands for conﬁguring each group of mip6mod parameters:

• configure

• list

• delete

• all commands (to configure, list, and delete all mip6mod parameters simultaneously)

NOTE Use mip6config commands exclusively—do not combine or execute multiple mip6config

commands simulatenously.

For each of the configure commands, the mip6conﬁg tool offers an interactive Novice Mode interface. The

Novice Mode interface prompts you to conﬁgure each parameter individually and also displays the current

value of each parameter in parenthesis. Omit arguments when using configure commands to enter the

Novice Mode interface, for example:

mip6config> configure error-rates

Error Rate Threshold (25):

Max Error Rate (5000):

Min Error Rate (7550):

NOTE Use the ! character to set any of the mip6mod conﬁguration parameters as unconﬁgured (i.e.,

empty) when using mip6conﬁg configure commands and prompted for input.