Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 07/13] Replace brSetInetAddress/brSetInetNetmask with brAddInetAddress
On 12/20/2010 05:46 PM, Paweł Krześniak wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:03, Laine Stump<laine(a)laine.org>
wrote:
> brSetInetAddress can only set a single IP address on the bridge, and
> uses a method (ioctl(SIOCSETIFADDR)) that only works for IPv4. Replace
> it and brSetInetNetmask with a single function that uses the external
> "ip addr add" command to add an address/prefix to the interface - this
> supports IPv6, and allows adding multiple addresses to the interface.
ioctl(SIOCSIFADDR) on AF_INET socket works for IPv4, on AF_INET6
socket works for IPv6 space.
You need to create fd6=socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0) in brInit()
and do ioctl() on fd6.
Interesting information. I still prefer to use the ip command, though,
as it allows me to add multiple IP addresses to an interface.