Re: iSCSI: TargetAddress format

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

Lakshmi-

Bracketed values are IPv6; the brackets are needed so address
components are not confused with the :tcp-port.  It's meant
to match RFC2732, so we wouldn't invent something new.

IPv4 addresses are just dotted-decimal without the brackets.

I just noticed that I never quite documented this; it just refers
to appendix D (sendtargets) which doesn't discuss IPv6 addresses.

The description of IPv6 (in appendix D) is also wrong.  I'll
look at a new wording for this one.

--
Mark

> Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
> The format of TargetAddress (Section 11.8) is given as
> 
>  TargetAddress=domainname[:port][,portal-group-tag]
> 
> In the examples given
> 
>  TargetAddress=[1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A],65
>  TargetAddress=[1080::8:800:200C:417A]:5003,1
> 
> What does the value within brackets indicate? Is it
> an IPv6 address?
> 
> thanks!
>  -lakshmi

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