[opennms-devel] IPv6 Support

[Frithiof J. \(AH/LMD\) <fri...@er...>]

Hi There,

I have a need for monitoring SNMP devices on an IPv6-only network. Right =
now I am trying to guess how hard it would be to get OpenNMS to support =
monitoring of IPv6 devices.=20

Basically, trying to make up my mind if I should hack OpenNMS for fame & =
future or just slink back into my cave and hack a seedy custom script up =
for what i need 'right now' ;)

I got this far:  =20

OpenNMS is IPv4 Only in some specific areas, The Application seems to =
work as installed on an IPv6 box (possibly because LocalHost traffic =
might not get as far as becoming IP - I *think* the Linux Kernel =
optimises here).

So far, I have found:

IPv4LatencyMonitor.java=20
IPv4Monitor.java=20
IPv4NetworkInterface.java=20

and=20

SnmpIPAddress.java

I especially do not like the look of SnmpIPAddress because in contrast =
to the "IPv4...java"'s here the underlying data for storing IP addresses =
is a four byte array and not java's InetAdress that - as far as I =
understand the Java doc's - do not really care about IPv4/IPv6 but can =
represent whatever adress is needed.

Is there some reason that SnmpIPAdress cannot use InetAdress?

Does anyone know of other areas of the code that might "Bite"?