Mobile IPv6 A.01.00 Administrator's Guide

Chapter 5

Administering the Mobile IPv6 Kernel Module with the mip6admin Tool

Starting, Stopping, and Dynamically-Conﬁguring mip6mod

Use the mip6admin commands described in this section to start, stop, and dynamically-conﬁgure mip6mod.

The following is a list of the mip6admin commands described in this section:

• start

• stop

• setconfiguration

Starting mip6mod: start

Use the start command to start and conﬁgure mip6mod with the speciﬁed Mobile IPv6 conﬁguration ﬁle. If

no ﬁle name is speciﬁed, mip6mod starts with /etc/mip6.conf. After starting mip6mod, mip6admin logs the

MUX ID for the mip6mod instance in /etc/mip6.muxids and updates the HP-UX IPv6 Router Advertisement

Daemon, rtradvd, of the mip6mod status.

Abbreviated: star[t]

Syntax start [-f

conf_file

]

Options: [-f

conf_file

] The fully-qualiﬁed (absolute) path of Mobile IPv6 conﬁguration ﬁle to

conﬁgure mip6mod with. Default values are used for invalid or

unconﬁgured parameters in the ﬁle. If no conf_ﬁle is speciﬁed, mip6mod

starts with /etc/mip6.conf.

Example: mip6admin -start -f /etc/backup-mip6.conf

Info: started mip6mod successfully.

Conﬁguring Automatic Start-up at System Boot

Edit the /etc/rc.config.d/mip6 ﬁle to conﬁgure mip6mod to start automatically during the system boot

process. Set the MIP6= parameter to 1 to start HP-UX Mobile IPv6 during boot-up. Set the parameter to 0 if

you do not want mip6mod to start during boot-up. The default setting is: MIP6=0.

The /etc/rc.config.d/mip6 ﬁle also allows you to specify the name of the Mobile IPv6 conﬁguration ﬁle for

the system to use after rebooting. Set the MIP6_CONF_FILE= parameter to the absolute path of the Mobile

IPv6 conﬁguration ﬁle you want the system to use after rebooting. The default setting is:

MIP6_CONF_FILE=/etc/mip6.conf.

Stopping mip6mod: stop

Use the stop command to stop mip6mod. The stop command uses the MUX IDs in /etc/mip6.muxids to stop

the mip6mod instance in the kernel.

Abbreviated: sto[p]

Syntax: stop

Example: mip6admin -stop

Info: stopped mip6mod successfully.