Address Management in IPv6

Andreas.Schwarz at hansenet.com Andreas.Schwarz at hansenet.com
Tue Jan 4 18:58:37 CET 2011


Martin Millnert wrote on 2011-01-04:
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:39 +0200, Graham Beneke wrote:
>> What tools are available for tracking and recording IPv6 assignments
>> within an organisation? Does anyone have good or bad experiences with
>> particular apps?
> 
> Postgresql has a very useful 'inet' data type with related functions
> and operators. (It also has 'mac-addr'.)

I can also recommend PostgreSQL, it's easy to use the same datatype and
the same functions for IPv4, IPv6 and maybe future IPvX (all the logic is 
covered by the DB).

Have a look at :

  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-net.html


best regards,
Andreas

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