The Compaq Tru64 UNIX IPv6 team is pleased to announce the availability of the latest IPv6 Early Adopters Kit (EAK) version X7.0 for Tru64 UNIX V5.0. This kit is available for use and evaluation, but is not officially supported by Compaq Computer Corporation and is not recommended for use in a production environment. This kit supports the IPv6 base protocol and addressing specifications, along with ICMPv6, Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, Path MTU Discovery, Neighbor Discovery, and RIPng. It supports IPv6 over Ethernet, FDDI, PPP and configured IPv4 tunnels. It is capable of acting as a BIND server for AAAA records and of forwarding packets as a router. This kit implements the IPv6 APIs specified in RFC 2553 and RFC 2292. Following is a summary of changes since the previous version of this kit: - This kit is for Tru64 UNIX V5.0. - The IPv6 kernel subsystem (ipv6.mod) is now optional. You must add the line "options IPV6" to your kernel configuration file to build the IPv6 subsystem into the kernel. - The IP-tunneling kernel subsystem (iptunnel.mod) is now optional. You must add the line "options IPTUNNEL" to your kernel configuration file to build the IP-tunneling subsystem into the kernel. - The RSVP API (RAPI) has been updated to the comply with The Open Group's Technical Standard "Resource ReSerVation Protocol API (RAPI)" (Document Number: C809, ISBN: 1-85912-226-4). See http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/c809.htm. - The following commands now support IPv6: /sbin/dump /sbin/restore /usr/bin/nrdist /usr/bin/rcp /usr/bin/rdist /usr/bin/rdistd /usr/bin/rlogin /usr/bin/rsh /usr/sbin/dump /usr/sbin/rdump /usr/sbin/restore /usr/sbin/rexecd /usr/sbin/rlogind /usr/sbin/rrestore /usr/sbin/rshd /usr/sbin/rwhod - The local database file for IPv6 address resolution is /etc/ipnodes. See the ipnodes(4) reference page for details. There are a few limitations which should be pointed out: - This kit requires Tru64 UNIX V5.0 with no patches. Patches should not be installed either before or after IPv6 installation. This is due to the chance of conflict between system files modified by the patch and system files modified by the IPv6 installation. - This kit should not be installed on a cluster. - A system with this kit installed should not be configured into a cluster. The kit may be unpacked by issuing the following commands: # mkdir /usr/tmp/ip6kit Copy the compressed file to /usr/tmp/ip6kit # cd /usr/tmp/ip6kit # cat ipv6_binary_X7.0.tar.gz | gunzip | tar xvpf - The kit contains two subsets: IP6BASE700 -- Contains the daemons, header files, utilities, libraries, and commands to support IPv6. IP6DOC700 -- Contains reference pages and the HTML, Portable Document Format (PDF), and PostScript versions of the Guide to Tru64 UNIX IPv6. COMPAQ recommends installing the documentation subset and reviewing the Guide to Tru64 UNIX IPv6 prior to installing the base subset. Install the documentation subset with the following command: # setld -l /usr/tmp/ip6kit IP6DOC700 Note: The "Documentation Preparation Tools" (OSFDCMT500) subset must be installed prior to installing the IPv6 documentation subset. Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript, and HTML versions of the Guide to Tru64 UNIX IPv6 are provided: file:/usr/share/doclib/ipv6/userguide/user_guide.pdf file:/usr/share/doclib/ipv6/userguide/user_guide.ps file:/usr/share/doclib/ipv6/userguide/TITLE.HTM Install the base subset with the following command: # setld -l /usr/tmp/ip6kit IP6BASE700 After installing the base subset, you must add the following lines to your kernel configuration file (e.g. /sys/conf/SYSTEM_NAME): options IPV6 options IPTUNNEL and then build and install a new kernel, and reboot the system: # doconfig -c SYSTEM_NAME # mv /vmunix /vmunix.save # cp /usr/sys/SYSTEM_NAME/vmunix /vmunix # shutdown -r +5 "Completing IPv6 Installation..." After booting the new kernel, configure IPv6 by running the IPv6 setup script: # /usr/sbin/ip6_setup Refer to the Guide to Tru64 UNIX IPv6 for detailed information on installing and configuring IPv6. 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@zk3.dec.com