IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates

Networking enhancements

This chapter describes the following topics that are related to networking enhancements enabled in IBM i 7.1:

•TCP/IP enhancements summary

•HTTP server support for PASE FastCGI PHP processing

•Telnet client support for SSL encryption

•Sockets programming: New user exits

•IKEv2 support

•IPv6 TCP/IP applications and V6R1 enablement PTFs

•IBM AnyNet support on IBM i 7.1

•Ethernet link aggregation

•Ethernet Layer-2 bridging

•IBM Portable Utilities for i (5733-SC1) supported versions

10.1 TCP/IP enhancements summary

The following ...