On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > > > So, if I understand correctly, what you are doing is changing the > > "ipv4only" flag's name to "query_only_ipv4" and setting it to the same > > value for all targets. > > > > This means that if you have even just one router that doesn't support > > SNMP over IPv6 (e.g. a Cisco router), then you can't use IPv6 for any > > router, because you have to turn on query_only_ipv4 off (by manually > > editing the code (!) in SNMP_Session.pm). > > This does not sound very plesant. > Does it sound pleasant a hardware-router processing IPv6 and not supporting SNMP v6 ? It may be a transient failure, but it's expected to support it. Hitachi did not support it before , now it does. Maybe Cisco... MRTG should not to pay for that in terms of complexity... > >From a support point of view, mrtg should behave as resilient as > possible. If a user wants ipv6 support he should get it, but I > guess at least today it must be his decision as there may be > devices that work on v6 but the user wants to access them via v4 > for one reason or the other ... > > And at least for now I think it is prudent to assume most people > will be using v4 still with the odd v6 device. > In every case, you could always ask for the dotted address... OK. Just a proposal to make it better. Thank you :-) -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg-developers
