PLANNING
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.
About this task
Install the IPv6 stack before IPv6 will work for any software. Prior to installing the IPv6 stack, check to see if IPv6 is configured on your system by using the following commands according to platform:
Table 1. IPv6 stack installation platforms and commands
After installing IPv6, use that same command to verify that IPv6 is available.
Parent topic: IPv6 and Domino
Microsoft Windows 2003 server platform
To enable IPv6 on the Microsoft Windows 2003 server platform, use
netsh interface ipv6 install
Link local address automatically assigned
Microsoft Windows XP client
To enable IPv6 on the Microsoft Windows XP client, use
AIX platform
To enable IPv6 on the IBM AIX platform, enter
ifconfig le0 inet6 plumb up
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 HCL Notes® and HCL 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: