On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Frithiof Jensen (AH/LMD) wrote:
> I like jffnms enough to use it on an IPv6-only network. 
That would be an interesting but not essential extension.

> Is there an architecture document or something that I can read through in 
> order to figure out what to change to get at least "first-level" support i.e. 
> The User can register IPv6 hosts, Services and Interfaces Manually, SNMP and 
> other probes get the correct formatted adresses/hostname?
You would need to adjust the width of the IP address fields at first
cut.

> I realise that getting the autodiscovery to work with IPv6 will be harder 
> because none of the underlying tools really support IPv6, but as a First Step 
> getting SNMP queries to work would be a solution to a problem I have right 
> now. 
It would be very dependent on the IPv6 or other support of the php SNMP
module.  Also some of the internal functions would need changing but I
don't know how "rich" PHP is in AF-independent functions.

> Basically, there is a need for a separate Transport Field associated with 
> each IP address (the nasty alternative is to parse it out all other places 
> than net-snmp, but that is stupid. Maybe fine for a demo). 

I would actually have a separate IPv6 hosts table to the (IPv4) hosts
table.  Far too many things depend on it being an IPv6 or IPv4 host.
For example ping versus ping6.  

> Is this very hard, or just work?
There would be a significant chance of broken randomness.  A lot of
discovery tools are using separate programs which may like IPv6
depending on how they are compiled.

Fix #1 would be a good way to know PHP can handle IPv6.

  - Craig

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