From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Smith Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] C/R: Support for IPv6 addresses on network devices Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:35:49 -0700 Message-ID: <87634jf63u.fsf@caffeine.danplanet.com> References: <1269459625-21033-1-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> <1269459625-21033-2-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> <4BABC967.5090908@hp.com> <87aatwf74u.fsf@caffeine.danplanet.com> <4BABD594.1020301@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BABD594.1020301-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org> (Brian Haley's message of "Thu\, 25 Mar 2010 17\:28\:52 -0400") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Brian Haley Cc: containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org BH> Ok, I don't remember Dave's email. https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2010-February/023135.html However, now that I've gone in and done some looking and replacing my print statements with %pI6, I think it may actually be kept in memory in network byte order, which means I don't need to switch it. Does that sound right? :) BH> Well, what does an 'ip -6 a' show before and after a checkpoint? Yeah, I end up with an extra address. I think ignoring the link-local ones sounds like a good plan, for now at least. -- Dan Smith IBM Linux Technology Center email: danms-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org