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Apache Talking IPv6

Issue 105

From Issue #105
January 2003

Jan 01, 2003  By Ibrahim Haddad and David Gordon
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A technical tutorial on setting up Apache to serve HTTP requests over IPv6 and some preliminary benchmarking results.
Conclusion

IPv6 is becoming a reality. For the next few years, we need to be able to support both IPv4 and IPv6 on our application servers before the complete transition to IPv6 occurs. The developers of Apache are aware of this, and they have already built in support for IPv6 in the Apache code. Previously, the support for IPv6 was in the form of a downloadable patch (from the Kame Project, for instance) that you would apply to the source tree.

As the benchmarking results suggest, serving documents over IPv6 is slightly slower (in terms of requests/second) than serving them over IPv4; however, this is understandable because the IPv6 support is still in its early stages. As the development advances, Apache is expected to reach and exceed the level of performance it achieved with IPv4 to remain the preferred web server in the world.

Acknowledgements

Ericsson Research (Open Architecture Research Lab) for supporting our work with Linux and open-source software and for approving the publication of this article.

Resources

Ibrahim Haddad (Ibrahim.Haddad@Ericsson.com)is a researcher at the Ericsson Research Open Architecture Lab in Montréal, Canada, where he is primarily involved in researching carrier-class server nodes for real-time all-IP networks. He is currently a Dr.Sc. Candidate at Concordia University.

David Gordon (davidgordonca@yahoo.ca) has completed his co-op term at Ericsson Research Canada as part of the team working to support IPv6 on near telecom-grade Linux clusters. He is currently a Computer Science student at the University of Sherbrooke.

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IPv6 for Apache 1.3.41

Teddy Mahrer's picture
Submitted by Teddy Mahrer (not verified) on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 08:47.

There is a patch for apache 1.3.41 that adds support for IPv6: http://www.teddy.ch/apache_1.3_ipv6/

IPv6 for Apache 1.3.41

Teddy Mahrer's picture
Submitted by Teddy Mahrer (not verified) on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 08:47.

There is a patch for apache 1.3.41 that adds support for IPv6: http://www.teddy.ch/apache_1.3_ipv6/

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