Configuring a Windchill Installation to be IPv6 Compliant
Windchill solutions that are configured to be IPv6 compliant can do the following:
• Send and receive IPv6 packets with an IPv6 client
• Use IPv6 addresses and features available through the API
Several 3rd Party applications do not yet support IPv6, so sites implementing IPv6 must have a dual-stack Windchill server (IPv4/IPv6) to be able to integrate with IPv4 enabled 3rd party applications. The following is a diagram that illustrates this point:
The client (browser) to the Windchill server connection can use a pure IPv6 connection.
There are manual instructions in this guide to configure Apache. IIS Web servers do not require special instructions to make them IPv6 compliant. An IPv6 protocol stack must be installed on the server, but these instructions are outside the scope of this document.
