Re: [GENERAL] status on IPv6 implementation...

Lorenzo Huerta <lorenzo(at)nmsu(dot)edu> writes:

> Does it treat the ip as text, or numeric value?

Neither. It handles IPV4 CIDRs, of which host addresses are a special
case, as just what they are. Input and output are textual, of course.
The internal storage format looks like this:

typedef struct {
unsigned char family; /* AF_INET (or, soon, AF_INET6) */
unsigned char bits; /* CIDR prefix length */
union {
u_int32_t ipv4_addr; /* network byte order */
/* add IPV6 address type here */
} addr;
} ipaddr_struct;

Oh, and the actual method of storage in the database is variable
length, so even when IPV6 code is added, the IPV4 storage format won't
change in size or layout.

-tih
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