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

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.'/>