(imported topic written by rmnetops91)
Question:
Will the “IP Address” property on bigfix clients refer to IPv6 addresses if they do not use IPv4?
What is the best way to display a systems IPv6 address in the machine properties if a customer uses both IPv4 and IPv6 addressing?
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Hi rmnetops,
I believe you have to specifically ask for the ipv6 format… Here are some examples:
q: addresses of adapters of network
A: 0.0.0.0
A: 192.168.104.155
A: 0.0.0.0
q: ipv6 addresses of adapters of network
A: fe80::5c51:9889:1603:f4ef
A: fe80::b16f:1266:71a5:a2f1
A: fe80::911c:d51d:6844:4e8e
My computer (Win7) seems to have an ipv6 address for each adapter even though I am not using ipv6… I am not sure how to detect if the ipv6 adderss is “active”…
Ben
(imported comment written by rmnetops91)
If the IPv6 protocol is enabled (which it is by default in Win7 and WinVista), then you will get an auto-assigned IPv6 address (doesn’t matter if your using IPv6 DHCP or not).
Thanks, that is what I needed.
(imported comment written by jeko1791)
Hi Ben,
I see how to do this on Windows, but I don’t see any inspectors for getting the same information (IPv6 addresses) on *nix systems.
Is there a similar way to get IPv6 info from *nix systems?
(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)
Q: addresses of ipv6 interfaces of network
A: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
A: fe80:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
A: fe80:0:0:0:21b:63ff:fe08:7a59
A: fe80:0:0:0:21c:42ff:fe00:1
A: fe80:0:0:0:21c:42ff:fe00:0
Q: properties whose (it as string contains “ipv6”)
A: ipv6 interfaces of : network adapter interface
A: ipv6 interfaces of : network adapter interface
A: ipv6 address : ipv6 address
A: ipv4 part of : ipv4 address
A: hexadecet of : integer
A: unique values of : ipv6 address with multiplicity
A: multiplicity of : integer
A: minima of : ipv6 address
A: maxima of : ipv6 address
A: extremas of : ( ipv6 address, ipv6 address )
A: ipv6: ip version
Edit: that was from version 8.
(imported comment written by jeko1791)
noah, thanks for the help,
I’m getting “The operator “ipv6 address” is not defined” with that relevance expression on my SuSE 10 server. We are using client version 7.2.5.22.
Here’s what I get looking for properties with “ipv6”:
Q: properties whose (it as string contains “ipv6”)
A: unique values of : ipv6 address with multiplicity
A: multiplicity of : integer
A: minima of : ipv6 address
A: maxima of : ipv6 address
A: extremas of : ( ipv6 address, ipv6 address )
A: ipv6 address : ipv6 address
A: ipv4 part of : ipv4 address
A: hexadecet of : integer
T: 30892339
Is this just a client version issue, or is there something else missing here?
(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)
Yeah, I should have added that I did with that with version 8. We did make some IPv6 improvements with the new release.