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Limitations of an r12.0 Mixed Environment

An r12.1 SP3 Policy Server can communicate with an r12.0 policy store, but an r12.0 Policy Server cannot connect to an r12.1 SP3 policy store. As a result, all existing r12.0 features are available in a mixed environment, but the features specific to r12.1 SP3 are not available.

The following table lists these features:

Feature

Description

Available in Mixed-Mode?

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Support

Note: FIPS is a US government computer security standard used to accredit cryptographic modules that meet the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

Use of FIPS 140-2 compliant algorithms

No

Enterprise Policy Management (EPM)

EPM is an application-centric way to create policies, which requires the r12.1 SP3 Administrative UI.

No

IPv6 Support

Use of the IPv6 TCP/IP protocol

No