21 Dec
2011
21 Dec
'11
3:43 p.m.
Andreas Granig writes:
Exactly. Sorry, forgot that part. Since the patch
supports optional
surrounding square brackets, the max. length of an IPv6 address is 47.
So it's either 8*4+7+2 for normal IPv6, like
"[0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000]", or (6*4+5)+1+(4*3+3)+2 for
tunneling, like "[0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:192.168.100.100]".
We could argue whether to not support square brackets and just allow
plain IP format, I've no strong opinions on that. We just wanted to make
it as flexible as possible.
i cannot comment on storing ipv6 address, because i don't know anything
about them. one possibility is to add a new column ipv6_addr to lcr_gw
table and take the address from the one which is not empty (if any).
-- juha