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RMC connection through NAT firewall

In an MSP environment there are multiple customers on one system with multiple VLANs. The VLANs are all behind a NAT firewall. From a management point of view, an LPAR should talk to the HMC over RMC through that NAT firewall. The issue in that en...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX ODT doesn't handle incoming tunnel negotiation request correctly

AIX ODT doesn't handle incoming tunnel negotiation request correctly. Instead of finding the exiting ODT, it creates a dup tunnel anew (non-odt tunnel, which would result in SA_expired/SA_expired state when the other end executes SA idle timeout a...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

IKE should trigger ODT tunnel for any valid incoming IKE negotiation.

Incoming non-IKE packets trigger ODT on AIXFor Windows and Linux (StrongSwan) IPsec implementations only valid incoming IKE N/W traffic will trigger the dynamic negotiation of the IKE tunnels on these Operating systems.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

p7zip RPM on AIX toolbox for Linux applications

we have some LPARs that need p7zip and we are currently using the RPM coming from Micheal Perzl, since we are switching all RPM to only use the ones coming from AIX toolbox for Linux application, it would be helpful to have it. Also I guess is a c...
almost 5 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

AIX Password Checking issue

Please refer the case #TS003130621. AIX 7.1 and above are having the pattern matching with regexec is not case insensitive , which is failing our compliance check and reporting the system.
almost 5 years ago in AIX 7 Delivered

Multiple interfaces not supported ? the underlying platform has a limitation of 1:1 mapping of Certificate/PSK with IP Addres

Multiple interfaces not supported – the underlying platform has a limitation of 1:1 mapping of Certificate/PSK with IP Address.
about 5 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

configuration parameter needs to be logged when exceeded

maxuproc : specifies the maximum number of user processes allowed. When this number is exceeded some programs behave unpredictable and there is know way to know what the problem is since it is not logged (errpt nor syslog)
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX SMC-R routing support - RoCE v2

To expand the usability of AIX SMC-R, support for routing (RoCE v2) would be of value.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX FC-NVMe

To improve performance of AIX based systems, support for FC-NVMe would be of value.
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

nmon to collect FC adapter stats from ndd pointer

currently nmon fetches the FC adapter stats using perfstat_fcstat() which gets the adapter status from ODM. If the mapping is removed on the VIOS, then the client FC adapter is not updated in ODM on LPAR. Need a mechanism to collect only the activ...
about 5 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered