HP-UX IPSec and HP-UX Mobile IPv6

Introduction

Prefix Discovery Packets Between the Home Agent and Mobile Node

RFC 3776 specifies that you should use ESP to secure ICMPv6 Mobile Prefix Solicitation and Mobile Prefix Advertisement messages between the Home Agent and Mobile Node. (See Appendix A, “RFC 3776 Mandatory Support” on page 279 for the RFC 3776 extract.)

Prefix Discovery allows a Mobile Node to get network prefix information about its Home Network and to configure its Home Address if needed. The Home Agent monitors prefix information from Router Advertisement messages on the Home Network. The Mobile Node can request prefix information by sending a Mobile Prefix Solicitation message to the Home Agent.

Payload Packets Routed Through the Home Agent

RFC 3776 specifies that you may use ESP to secure payload (data) packets between Mobile Nodes and Correspondent Nodes when these packets are forwarded through the Home Agent. (See Appendix A, “RFC 3776 Mandatory Support” on page 279 for the RFC 3776 extract.) Data packets between the Mobile Node and the Correspondent Nodes are forwarded through the Home Agent in Basic Operation, which is used when Route Optimization is not established.

RFC 3776 also specifies that if the Home Agent supports stateful address autoconfiguration (such as DHCPv6) for the Mobile Nodes, or supports multicast group membership control protocols, the IPSec implementation must support payload protection, but using it is not mandatory.

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