HP-UX 11.x and IPv6

[Darren Anthony_2]

The US Government recently came out with a mandate that systems need to be IPv6 capable by a certain date.

I have a few systems running 11iv1. I understand HP has a product called TOUR which implements IPv6. Can someone give me some feedback based on their first-hand experience running TOUR?

Thanks,

Darren

[Hakan Aribas]

Hi,

I don't know TOUR, but I can say you can use IPv6 simply by editing /etc/inetd.conf file: tcp or tcp6

Example (IPv6):
ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l

Example (IPv4):
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l

[Arunvijai_4]

You need to have IPv6 depot or Transport Optional Upgrade Release (TOUR) for IPV6 in 11v1. You can get more information from
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=TOUR

-Arun

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi Darren,

I don't know TOUR but it would be interesting to try it. Soon all system would be IPv6 capable.

Anyway a few months ago I faced a resolution problem when setting a system to use IPv6:

.............
The ipnodes parameter was introduced with the IP V6 transport in HPUX version
11.i. It is required for any system that has IP Version 6 installed. At 11.i
version 2 (11.23) and above IPv6 is installed by default. At 11i version 1
(11.11) a software update is required to install ipv6.
.............

So you should modify /etc/nsswitch.conf for example like follows:

# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns
ipnodes: files [NOTFOUND=return] dns

HTH.

Best regards,
Fabio