[Fusioninventory-devel] Confusion between network interfaces and network addresses

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

Hello all,

> I think we all agree we should enforce a consistent strategy everywhere. My
> favorite ones would be 1, then 3, then 2. mainly because I prefer the idea
> of having all 'networks' entries corresponding to a single concept, rather
> than the idea of mixing concepts just for practical advantage.


OCS uses the second solution, and we are supposed to follow this structure for
the moment.
This is design problem with IPv6, since it's now common to see one
interface with
various IPv6 configuration.

My point of view:
We can continue with this 2nd solution and maybe fix some implementation and
add two new sections:
  -NET_IFS (the network interface)
  -NET_ADDRS (the network interface settings + the NETINFS/NAME)

3.0 agent branch will have a JSON output, we can use this structure
transition to drop
what will be at this time the legacy NETWORKS section.

Best regards,
-- 
     Gonéri Le Bouder