netdev - Re: [patch 2/4] ipset: make IPv4 and IPv6 address handling similar

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:18:46 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
To:	holger@...zenberger.org
cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] ipset: make IPv4 and IPv6 address handling similar

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, holger@...zenberger.org wrote:

> While the following works for AF_INET:
> 
>  ipset add foo 192.168.1.1/32
> 
> this does not work for AF_INET6:
> 
>  ipset add foo6 20a1:1:2:3:4:5:6:7/128
>  ipset v5.2: Syntax error: plain IP address must be supplied: 20a1:1:2:3:4:5:6:7/128

Yeah, the usual issue: should IPv4/32 and IPv6/128 be handled as a plain 
IPv4/v6 address when the manual says "enter a plain IPv4/v6 address" :-).

The complete fix was to add the exception to the generic IP address parser 
function.

Best regards,
Jozsef  
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