Connections

You need to verify the status of your IPv4 and IPv6 connections.

For both IPv4 and IPv6 connections, you should verify the following information:

IPv4 connection status

To display information about the status of your IPv4 connections, follow these steps:

  1. In iSeries™ Navigator, expand your iSeries server > Network > TCP/IP Configuration > IPv4 .
  2. Select Connections.
  3. If you need to end and restart the passive listening connection, then you should do it by ending and restarting the server. To end and restart a server, follow these steps:
    1. In iSeries Navigator, expand your iSeries server > Network > Servers.
    2. Select TCP/IP for TCP/IP servers or select iSeries Access for host servers, right-click the server you want to end and restart, and select End.
    3. Right-click the server you want to restart, and select Start.

IPv6 connection status

To display information about the status of your IPv6 connections, follow these steps:

  1. In iSeries Navigator, expand your iSeries server > Network > TCP/IP Configuration > IPv6 .
  2. Select Connections.
  3. If you need to end and restart the passive listening connection, then you should do it by ending and restarting the server. To end and restart a server, follow these steps:
    1. In iSeries Navigator, expand your iSeries server > Network > Servers .
    2. Select TCP/IP, right-click the server you want to end and restart, and select End.
    3. Right-click the server you want to restart, and select Start. IBM provides a limited number of TCP/IP applications that support IPv6.
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