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

Lorenzo Huerta <lorenzo@nmsu.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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