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

[David Lutterkort]

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.'/>
        
_maybe_ enclosed in a <addresses> container tag, but I don't think
that's needed.

David