Re: [netcf-devel] [libvirt] [RFC] Reporting host interface status/statistics via netcf/libvirt, and listing active vs. inactive interfaces
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:56:44PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 18:10 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 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.
That should be stated explicitly, not implied by having an empty
<address/> tag.
IMHO that results in a bad structure, because its anot associating
the related info together, eg having an separate element to turn
on/off IPV6, and then listing addresses:
<address family='ipv6'/>
<ip type='ipv6' address='2001:23::2' prefix='48'/>
<ip type='ipv6' address='fe:33:55::33' prefix='64'/>
vs having the direct association
<address family='ipv6'>
<ip address='2001:23::2' prefix='48'/>
<ip address='fe:33:55::33' prefix='64'/>
</address>
the latter removes the redundancy from specifying address family in
multiple places
> 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.
What would 'enabling an address family for an interface' do ? Whatever
it does should probably be stated explicitly.
That's really protocol specific, but it will typically enable some local
address auto-config by the kernel.
Daniel
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