[VCL-804] IPv6 support for clients and managed computers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: database

Environment

Verified against 2.3.x DB, instructed that 2.4 DB is also affected

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Karl Vollmer
• Created: 20/Jan/15 14:05
• Updated: 20/Jan/15 14:05

Description

Full support for IPv6 addresses from clients would be the higher priority as we (VCL admins) can't control the addresses our clients come from, but a side-bonus would be support for managing VMs that only have v6 addresses.

using php's Inet_pton/inet_aton (perl should have it as well) plus the varbinary() database field type should allow you to still do "end >= ?" on v6 and v4 ipaddresses - https://github.com/ampache/ampache/blob/develop/lib/class/access.class.php is an example implementation of PHP supporting IPv6