[hobbit] IPv6

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:38 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.

We are also getting queried from IPv6 ready team about hobbit's
compliance with IPv6.

Would be nice to have this available as patch with 4.2.x instead of
waiting for 4.3.x.

Thanks

>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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