IPv6 Support in Manager+Agents

As of version 13.4, Signiant Manager supports IPv6 addressing by setting the default protocol family in your data distribution system configuration. Support for IPv6 requires a manual configuration and restarting your Manager services to apply the change.

Note: IPv6 addressing not recommended for production environments.

Your default protocol family can be:

• PF_INET6 - IPv6 only
• PF_INET - IPv4 only
• PF_UNSPEC - Both IPv6 and IPv4 (Beta)

Enabling IPv6 Addressing

Windows

1. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your Signiant installation directory.
2. Navigate to the \Mobilize\bin directory.
3. Open dds.cfg in a text editor as an Administrator.

4. Add a declaration for the default protocol family as PF_INET6:

   default protocol family is PF_INET6

5. Save the changes and close your editor.

6. Open the command prompt and use net to stop the relevant processes:

   C:\> net stop ddspcsrv
   C:\> net stop ddscasrv
   C:\> net stop ddsursrv

7. Use net to start the processes and apply the changes:

   C:\> net start ddspcsrv
   C:\> net start ddscasrv
   C:\> net start ddsursrv

Note: Agents do not run the ddscasrv service, and do not need to restart that process.

Linux

1. Using your terminal, navigate to your /etc folder.

2. Use sudo to enable root permissions and open dds.conf a text editor.

   sudo nano dds.conf
   

3. Add a declaration for the default protocol family as PF_INET6:

   default protocol family is PF_INET6

4. Save the changes and close your editor.
5. Navigate to your /usr/bin/ folder

6. Restart your Signiant services using ./siginit restart, or by restarting the relevant processes:

   $ ./siginit restart sigagent
   $ ./siginit restart sigca
   $ ./siginit restart sigur
   

Note: Agents do not run the sigca service, and do not need to restart that process.