Ipv6 infrastructure – Sybase DC35823-01-1500-04 User Manual

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IPv6 support

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Adaptive Server Enterprise

IPv6-enabled – an application that, in addition to being IPv6-aware, takes
advantage of some IPv6 features.

IPv6-required – an application that requires some IPv6 features and cannot
operate over IPv4.

IPv6 Infrastructure:

IPv6 infrastructure

Dual Stack infrastructure implements both IPv4 and IPv6. This is the
recommended infrastructure implementation for using Adaptive Server
Enterprise as an IPv6-aware server.

Sybase applications are IPv6-aware. All code to turn Sybase™ Adaptive
Server and the Open Client/Server components IPv6-aware was done using the
IETF designed primitives, see “Creating or converting for IPv6-aware
applications.” The following matrix lists the platform run-time requirements
and the specific product and its release version:

Table 5-3: IPv6 support

Many Sybase products that are Open Client/Server based like XP Server,
Backup Server, Replication Server and Open Switch became automatically
IPv6-aware due to the layered Open Client Transport Control Layer (CTlib-
>NETlib) which is IPv6-aware for network-socket operations. An important
note is that any DBlib based Open Client product is not IPv6-aware.

For Adaptive Server Enterprise being IPv6-aware is a complex issue because
some components within the ASE are 3rd party components and are not yet
IPv6-aware. To understand how this impacts Adaptive Server Enterprise the
following list shows all functional mechanisms of Adaptive Server Enterprise
that are IPv6-aware with respect to the platform / release matrix above:

Connection Handler

Platform

Adaptive Server IPv6
awareness

Open Client/Server
IPv6 awareness

Sun Solaris 8 32- and 64-
bit

12.5.3a and 15.0

12.5 and 15.0

HP-UX 11i(v1) 32- and
64-bit

12.5.3a and 15.0

12.5 and 15.0

Microsoft Server 2003

12.5.3a and 15.0

12.5 and 15.0

Linux RHEL 3.0

15.0

12.5 and 15.0

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