Mobile IPv6 Frequently Asked Questions

This procedure is documented in the HP-UX Mobile IPv6 Administrator’s Guide at

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html/#HP-UX%20Mobile%20IPv6

10. What are the supported standards?

 IETF Document: Mobility Support in IPv6

Note: This document is currently a draft and is expected to become an RFC soon.

 IETF Document: Using IPSec to Protect the Mobile IPv6 Signaling between the

Mobile Nodes and Home Agents

11. What are the product benefits?

Benefits of the Mobile IPv6 Protocol:

 It’s tightly coupled with IPv6

 It uses many IPv6 features for mobility services

 It’s based on learnings from MIPv4

 Mobility was a chief design concern for IPv6

 Mobility is transparent to all layers above IP layer

 Security considerations are a core part of the protocol

Benefits of HP-UX Mobile IPv6:

 It's free-of-charge

 It’s designed for and supports MP scaling

 IPSec is also offered from HP and is also free-of-charge

 It has participated in conformance testing and multi-vendor verification at TAHI

project forums and Connectathon

 HP’s nettl tracing tool will support Mobile IPv6 packet tracing

 TOUR 2.0 includes all Mobile IPv6 product dependencies

 It includes administrator tools like mip6admin and mip6config

For more information, refer to the HP-UX Mobile IPv6 Administrator’s Guide or

White Paper available at the following URL:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html/#HP-UX%20Mobile%20IPv6

12. What are the product limitations?

Refer to the HP-UX MIPv6 A.01.00 Administrator's Guide at

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html/#HP-UX%20Mobile%20IPv6 to see the

default settings for HP-UX MIPv6.