IPv6 support

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Thu Mar 13 01:05:29 CET 2003


On 12 Mar 2003 at 14:38, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:03:38PM +0100, Nicolas DEFFAYET wrote:
> > I created my patchs for have a IPv4/IPv6 support:
> > 
> > http://www.openipv6.com/temp/nagios-plugins-1.3.0-ipv6.patch
> > -> IPv6 support for many plugins
> > TODO: IPv6 support for check_snmp
> > 
> 	I may have to take a look at this to see if there is anything I
> haven't already caught and put into the CVS repository for the nagios
> plugins to support IPv6...
> 
> 	IPv6 support for SNMP might have to wait until more of the MIBs
> are updated to support IPv6 themselves...
> 
> > http://www.openipv6.com/temp/nagios-1.0-ipv6.patch
> > -> IPv4 and IPv6 support for the same host (using address and address6)
> > 
> 	Is there really anything that needs to be done to nagios itself
> to support IPv6? I haven't found anything I've need to modify except the
> plugins to get IPv6 support... 

No patches should be required for the daemon, as it does not 
interpret addresses itself.  The plugins should be the only things 
that need to know how to handle IPv6 addresses.

Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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