On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:42:40AM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 10:46 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > 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> > > I don't see that that buys us anything that we wouldn't have with > > <ip type='ipv4' address='122.0.0.3' prefix='24'/> > <ip type='ipv4' address='24.24.224.4' prefix='24'/> > <ip type='ipv6' address='2001:23::2' prefix='48'/> > <ip type='ipv6' address='fe:33:55::33' prefix='64'/> > <ipx address='2423.4521.66.3.252.'/> If you do this, then you'll need an explicit element to turn on / off IPv4 or IPv6 addressing for the inteface as whole. ie to stop the automatic addition of a link-local address. By having the container, for each family, the prescense or not of the container can define whether that address family is enabled for that inteface. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list