NETWORK CONFIGURATION

Installing the IPv6 stack
Install the IPv6 stack before IPv6 will work for any software. To install the IPv6 stack, follow the instructions provided for by your platform's vendor. The instructions in this section contain general guidelines for many platforms, but you need to follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer of your platform.

Prior to installing the IPv6 stack, check to see if IPv6 is configured on your system by using the following commands according to platform:
PlatformCommands
Microsoft® Windows® platformsipconfig /all
All other platformsifconfig -a
After installing IPv6, use that same command to verify that IPv6 is available.

Microsoft Windows 2003 server platform

To enable IPv6 on the Microsoft® Windows® 2003 server platform, use


Link local address automatically assigned

Microsoft Windows XP client

To enable IPv6 on the Microsoft Windows XP client, use


Link local address automatically assigned

AIX platform

To enable IPv6 on the IBM® AIX® platform, enter


Link local address automatically assigned

Solaris platform

To enable IPv6 on the Solaris platform, enter


Link local address automatically assigned

United Linux platform

IPv6 is enabled by default on the United Linux® platform.

Zones

In the IPv6 standard, when link local address and site local address are used, an additional parameter is required to specify the interface on which the address is valid. In the API, this additional parameter is called the scope_id; in user documentation, the parameter is called the zone. In IBM® Lotus® Notes® and IBM® Lotus® Domino®, use the format address string followed by the percent sign (%) followed by the zone.

On Microsoft Windows, the zone is an integer index into the interface list with the first interface being zone one.

Note the following information regarding zones:


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