[netcf-devel] [libvirt] [RFC] Reporting host interface status/statistics via netcf/libvirt, and listing active vs. inactive interfaces

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:59:20PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 21:32 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > How do you deal with IPv6  currently ?
> 
> With lots of Aspirin (actually, not at all)
> 
> > I was thinking of sugesting an attribute
> > 
> >   <ip type="ipv6" address="2001:23::2" prefix="24"/>
> > 
> > but I think its possibly better to have a different element name
> > 
> >   <ip6 address="2001:23::2" prefix="24"/>
> > 
> > since the former would not work if we ever needed to worry about
> > non-IP based addresses.
> 
> Either works for me, with a slight preference for the first version, on
> purely esthetic grounds. And even if we go with that, there's nothing
> keeping us from adding an <ipx> element as an alternative to the <ip>
> element in the future.

Or a 3rd option is to group addresses by family


   <addresses family='ipv4'>
      <ip address='122.0.0.3' prefix='24'/>
      <ip address='24.24.224.4' prefix='24'/>
   </addresses>
   <addresses family='ipv6'>
      <ip address='2001:23::2' prefix='48'/>
      <ip address='fe:33:55::33' prefix='64'/>
   </addresses>
   <adddresses family='ipx'>
      <ipx address='2423.4521.66.3.252.'/>
   </address>


Daniel
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