In addition to IPv4, Sybase ETL 4.8 now supports the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) on all platforms.
Using IPv6 for database connnectivity requires that the underlying database and connectivity library supports IPv6. All Sybase databases and ctlib support IPv6, and can be used with ETL on IPv6 networks.
Table 2 lists the databases that support IPv4 and IPv6.
Database |
IPv4 |
IPv6 |
|---|---|---|
Sybase IQ 15.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
Sybase IQ 12.7 |
Yes |
No |
Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise 15.0.2 |
Yes |
Yes |
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0.1 |
Yes |
Yes |
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.4 |
Yes |
Yes |
Adaptive Server Anywhere 11.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
Adaptive Server Anywhere 10.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
IBM DB2 9.1 |
Yes |
Yes |
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
Yes |
Yes |
Microsoft Access 2007 |
Yes |
Yes |
MySQL |
Yes |
No |
Oracle 11g |
Yes |
No |
Oracle 10g |
Yes |
No |
IPv6 addresses a number of problems with IPv4, such as the limited number of available IPv4 addresses, which are needed by all new machines added to the Internet. IPv6 increases address size from 32 bits to 128 bits and adds improvements to IPv4 in areas, such as routing and network auto-configuration. IPv6 is expected to gradually replace IPv4, with the two coexisting for a number of years during the transition period.
