[Info-vax] Potential TCP/IP Services Features and Enhancements, (was: Re: Decnet over IPv6?)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-05 07:00:05 +0000, Dirk Munk said:

> You did know, thanks. Another task for VSI, the full implementation of 
> IPv6 for Decnet plus and clustering etc. Another question with regard 
> to IP. Modern ethernet NICs have offload engines for TCP, IPsec, iSCSI 
> etc. Do you happen to know if VMS uses for instance the TCP offload 
> engines of supported NICs?


AFAIK / IIRC / Check the SPD 
<<http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/spdtcpip57.pdf> and chat with HP 
support / etc ...

Details and limitations that I've bumped into or am otherwise aware of:

No TOE; was on the public roadmap for a while, but never materialized.  
 No iSCSI support; iSCSI EAK and latent in V5.7, but no support.  No 
CIFS/SMB client.  IPv6 configuration limits; setting specific addresses 
has issues 
<http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Networking/ipv6-configuration-static-IP-provided-but-no-place-to-put-it/m-p/6270285> 
.   No firewall.  No integrated logging via syslog/syslog-ng.  HP SMH 
security: <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1021>.   No SSL/TLS support 
for POP or IMAP, and no SMTP submission port support.  No mechanisms 
akin to SpamAssassin / AMaViS / Postfix in terms of configuration 
flexibility.  No SSL, PPTP or L2TP/IPSec VPN client or server support.  
 No IPSec support.  No SNMPv3 support.  No WiFi controller support.  
Probably a few other details I've not recalled here or not bumped into.

Yes, VSI has a whole pile of potential projects here, if (when?) they 
decide to bring TCP/IP Services forward, and that's before considering 
such details as improving the diagnostics and ease-of-use, and 
addressing user interface issues.  This includes addressing such issues 
and details such as how the V5.7 SMTP configuration-file interface 
defaults to an open relay <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1844> when 
the configuration file is not present (and the expected configuration 
file location does change).




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