On Mar 19, 2009, at Mar 19, 2009, 1:30 AM, David Miller wrote:
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> From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:26:30 -0400
>
>> There are multiple different forms of presenting addresses, all of
>> which are valid and non of which will provide for sting equality.
>> Regardless of how we represent our IPv6 addresses, there is a chance
>> that it will cause interoperability issues and the only way to truly
>> solve it is to change applications to compare addresses in their
>> true numerical representation.
>
> Or to, they themselves, canonicalize the text representation before
> comparison.

Thanks, this was helpful.

We had considered converting the string address to a sockaddr and back  
in user space, and that sounds like a good way to ensure we get the  
same presentation address for comparison.

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Chuck Lever
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