[Info-vax] Still no IPSEC for TCP/IP services?

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On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 00:36 +0200, Dirk Munk wrote:
> I'm planning to set up a couple of new OpenVMS systems, and I was 
> thinking of using IPSEC as well. I was amazed to find that IPSEC is
> not included in the present version of TCP/IP services. It was
> included in the Early Adopters Kit for TCP/IP services 5.7 in 2007
> (!!!!), but it never made it to the final version and wasn't added
> later on.

It's available in Multinet from Process - it's far better than HP's
TCP/IP stack for VMS.

> As far as I know IPSEC is a mandatory part of IPv6, so the IPv6 stack
> of TCP/IP services isn't complete either. It may well be that there is
> more modern functionality missing in the IPv6 stack
> 
> Does any one know what happened, why was HP not capable of producing a
> full functional IPSEC stack in 5 years time? Even Windows Vista has 
> IPSEC........ 

Lack of investment, I guess.
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