[hobbit] IPv6

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> In <ea6cc0c70811281053n3c27f49fpf78fd2b800a52bf5 at mail.gmail.com> "David A. Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>Searched the archives and found a few IPv6 inquiries, but only that
>>there are no plans to support it.  While I'm not a programmer, I
>>suspect it would actually be fairly simple to implement (please
>>correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> It's not entirely trivial, but it can be done (of course). The
> actual changes needed to "talk" IPv6 in the network service tests
> is probably not a whole lot; may real concern is going through all
> of the places throughout Xymon where the code assumes that an IP-
> address looks like "1.2.3.4".
>
>
>>This is starting to become a priority for me.  I need to monitor my
>>ssh servers, but they all only respond now to ipv6, so I can't :-(.
>
> It is moving up on my priority list as well - it seems that IPv6 is
> (finally) seeing some real adoption. It won't be in the next version,
> but probably the one after that.
>

Thanx, Henrik, as long as it's on the map, I'll wait.


David A. Bandel
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