The Digital UNIX IPV6 Prototype team is pleased to announce the availability of
the latest IPV6 Binary kit for Digital UNIX V3.2C or V3.2D.  This kit is 
available via Anonymous FTP at the following location:

	ftp://sipper.zk3-x.dec.com/pub/ipv6_binary_X5.1B.tar.Z

Also available at this time are the following:

  IPv6 capable Web Server and Client:
        ftp://sipper.zk3-x.dec.com/pub/ipv6_www_X5.1.tar.Z

  IPv6 Bricks demo:
        ftp://sipper.zk3-x.dec.com/pub/bricks-v6kit.tar.Z

The kits are also available on the 6bone at sipper.ipv6.zk3-x.dec.com
(5F0D:E900:CE98:A300::800:2B39:F505).

This kit adds IPv6 support for the X library and server.  This allows a user to
set their X display to an IPv6 node name, and run an X display over IPv6.  Note
that X display access control (e.g. xhost, xauth) does not yet support IPv6. 
Users must disable X access control (e.g. 'xhost +') in order to allow X
displays over IPv6.  Digital plans to add IPv6 support for X display access
control in a future release.  This kit replaces the following X libraries:

            /usr/shlib/libX11.so     (original saved as libX11.so.DIST)
            /usr/shlib/X11/libos.so  (original saved as libos.so.DIST)


This kit also includes an IPv6 capable version of the traceroute utility, which
is installed as:

                /usr/sbin/traceroute6

The IPv6 for Digital UNIX kit supports the IPV6 base protocol and addressing
specifications, along with ICMPv6, Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, Path MTU
Discovery, and Neighbor Discovery.  It is capable of acting as a BIND server for
AAAA records, and of forwarding packets as a router (via static routes only).
Also, it includes the BSD API specified in Internet Draft
draft-ietf-ipngwg-bsd-api-05.txt, a Work in Progress.

There are a few limitations which should be pointed out:

      - Limit of 1 LAN interface.  Only a single Ethernet
	or FDDI interface is supported in this release.

      - Incompatible with Digital UNIX V3.2C ATM options.
	Due to differences in the kernel networking infrastructure,
	this kit prevents the ATM options from being linked into
	the kernel.

      - Multi-processor (SMP) systems are not currently supported.

      - Some commands and utilities which are tightly integrated
        with kernel data structures might not work, or may yield
        unexpected output or behavior.  These include arp, netstat,
        and gated.

Further details on the installation, configuration, and use of this kit can be
found in the kit, in file /usr/share/ipv6/icu_guide.txt.  To unpack the kit,
it is suggested that the following commands be issued by root:

	# mkdir /usr/tmp/ip6kit
	Copy the compressed file to /usr/tmp/ip6kit
	# cd /usr/tmp/ip6kit
	# zcat ipv6_binary_X5.1B.tar.Z | tar xvpf -


Finally, this kit is available for use and evaluation, but is not officially
supported by Digital Equipment Corporation.  Its use in a production environment
would not be recommended.  We would appreciate any and all feedback about
features, bugs, or wishlist items, but we may not be able to respond to every
mail.  Please send your comments and suggestions to:

	mailto:ipv6-uproto-feedback@netrix.lkg.dec.com