Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] IPv6 filter expression

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From: itojun@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:11:53 +0900
>> 	From my experience it is easier to use simple regexp (like
>> 	"[0-9a-fA-F\:\.]+") and use get_host_ipaddr6(), than try to make
>> 	exact IPv6 numeric address regexp.
>However, that's not the only problem that's keeping ipv6 addresses
>from being understood in the display filters.
>ipv6_str_to_guint8_array(), called by dfilter_mknode_ipv6_value(),
>doesn't work right. It won't parse "ff02::9" as an ipv6 address.

	I'll be using get_host_ipaddr6() for this.

itojun