Re: iSCSI: question about numeric IPv6 addr

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Julian Satran wrote:

> IPV6 addresses are explicitly supported and you will find examples in the
> text - Julo

Correct. However...

>
> When looking through appendix D (SendTargets), I noticed what looks like
> an IPv4-centric bit, in the TargetAddress part. Here's the text:
>
>      Followed by zero or more address keys of the form:
>
>        TargetAddress=<hostname-or-ipaddress>[:<tcp-port>],<portal-
>          group-tag>
>
> The problem is that an optional :<tcp-port> is ambiguous for IPv6. You
> can't tell the port number from the tail of a valid IPv6 numeric address.
>
> Turns out RFC 2732, which we site, breaks the ambiguity by stating that an
> IPv6 address should be given surounded by literal brackets. i.e. something
> like '[::1]'. Thus port 3260 on localhost would be '[::1]:3270'.
>
> I'd like to suggest we add an explicit use of an IPv6 address, and also
> change the wording below:
>
>      In the above example, a DNS host name could have been returned
> instead
>      of an IP address, and that an IPv6 addresses (5 to 16 dotted-decimal
>      numbers) could have also been returned.
>
> IPv6 doesn't use dotted-decimal numbers, it uses colon-separated
> hexadecimal ones.

The above statement still stands; "5 to 16 dotted-decimal numbers" is not
correct.

Take care,

Bill