ChorusOS 5.0 Features and Architecture Overview

IPv6

The following IPv6 RFCs are supported:

IPv6 RFC 

Description 

RFC 1981 

Path MTU Discovery for IPv6

RFC 2292 

Advanced Sockets API for IPv6  

RFC 2373 

IPv6 Addressing Architecture: supports node required addresses, and conforms to the scope requirement. 

RFC 2374 

An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format supports 64-bit length of Interface ID 

RFC 2375 

IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments Userland applications use the well known addresses assigned in the RFC 

RFC 2460 

IPv6 specification 

RFC 2461 

Neighbor discovery for IPv6 

RFC 2462 

IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration 

RFC 2463 

ICMPv6 for IPv6 specification 

RFC 2464 

Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks 

RFC 2553 

Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6. IPv4 mapped address and special behavior of IPv6 wild card bind socket are supported 

RFC 2675 

IPv6 Jumbograms 

RFC 2710 

Multicast Listener Discovery for IPv6 

The following utilities are available with IPv6 functionality:

Command 

Description 

ifconfig

Assign address to network interface and configure interface parameters 

netstat

Symbolically displays contents of various network-related data structures 

ndp

Symbolically displays the contents of the Neighbor Discovery cache 

route

Manually manipulate the network routing tables 

ping6

Elicit an ICMP6_ECHO_REPLY from a host or gateway

rtsol

Send only one Router Solicitation message to the specified interface and exit 

rtsold

Send ICMPv6 Router Solicitation messages to the specified interfaces 

gifconfig

Configures the physical address for the generic IP tunnel interface

ftp

Transfer files to and from a remote network site 

tftp

Transfer files to and from a remote machine 

For a full description of the implementation of IPv6 in the ChorusOS operating system, see "IPv6 and the ChorusOS System" in ChorusOS 5.0 System Administrator's Guide.