[Info-vax] Still no IPSEC for TCP/IP services?
Dirk Munk
munk at home.nl
Tue May 22 01:59:20 EDT 2012
Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 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.
That may be. But clustering over IP is supported over TCP/IP services
only.....
>
>> 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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