5 Replies Last post: Mar 7, 2006 12:52 AM by cdemez  
Michael Bronze 44 posts since
Jul 22, 2005
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Feb 2, 2006 7:41 AM

IPv6

Matt,

We have done a test running Spark and Wildfire on an IPv6 network. Yes, we can confirm that there is absolutely no problem running them on both types of networks IP4 and IPv6. The target platform was w2k running on laptops.

Java supports IPv6 as following (single and dual stack options):

–     Since 1.4.0 for Solaris & Linux

–     In 1.5.0 for Windows (XP SP1 & 2003).

 

Thanks for the great software

Michael

Matt Tucker Jiver 3,151 posts since
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Feb 3, 2006 6:00 PM in response to: Michael
Re: IPv6

Awesome, thanks for the confirmation.

 

-Matt

cdemez Bronze 39 posts since
Feb 20, 2006
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Feb 22, 2006 12:50 PM in response to: Matt Tucker
Re: IPv6

Great news

 

Just a few questions :

1 - Do we have to do something to support IPv6 in WildFire ?

2 - Does IPv4 and IPv6 clients will be able to connect to the same WildFire server ?

 

Thanks for this great news .... and good work

slushpupie KeyContributor 705 posts since
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Feb 22, 2006 1:57 PM in response to: cdemez
Re: IPv6

1 - Do we have to do something to support IPv6 in WildFire ?

 

Turn on IPv6 support in your OS. 

 

2 - Does IPv4 and IPv6 clients will be able to connect to the same WildFire server ?

 

This will be somewhat dependent on what your OS does.  Wildfire is just listening on all ports on the default address (0.0.0.0 in IPv4 speak, :: in IPv6 speak) so if your OS has some 4in6 addressing abilities (like Linux) it should just work out of the box.  On Linux, when I run a netstat command I see things like this:

 

tcp6       0      0 :::5222                  :::*            &nb sp;       LISTEN     -

tcp6       0      0 :::5223                  :::*            &nb sp;       LISTEN     -

tcp6       0      0 ::ffff:1.2.3.4:5222 ::ffff:1.2.3.5:48283 ESTABLISHED-

 

So even though its an IPv4 connection, the OS translates it to an IPv6 connection for the application.  No special configuration needed for this.

cdemez Bronze 39 posts since
Feb 20, 2006
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Mar 7, 2006 12:52 AM in response to: Michael
Re: IPv6

Okay

 

Thanks... I will do some test on Windows XP

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