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

[David Lutterkort]

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.

David