Re: Add Network Neighborhood to Nautilus

[Bruce Robert Pocock <brpocock 10east com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 13:25, George Farris wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 09:09, Bruce Robert Pocock wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 11:32, snickell stanford edu wrote:
> > > (do all interesting
> > > protocols allow us to determine a unique identifier, say IP address, for
> > > the machine sharing resources, so we don't get computers showing up
> > > twice?)
> > 
> > For the usual case of "interesting," yes... i.e. (WebDAV SMB AFP NFS)
> > 
> > IP address = almost always what we want...
> > 
> 
> This should really work for both IPv4 and IPv6 though.

I forget the "prefix," but all IPv4 addresses can have some "stuff"
glued onto them to be valid IPv6 - so we can treat IPv6 addresses as the
normal case and translate them as needed.

I don't see any glue in glib for this, though. There probably should be
some "casts" like g_ipv6_to_ipv4 / g_ipv4_to_ipv6 for e.g. the case
where the underlying OS doesn't understand IPv6 yet. (I've not worked
with IPv6 in the real world - is there some magic in glib/gnome-vfs
already to handle this?)