[Info-vax] Porting old stuff from VAX to Itanium...

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-08-26 16:38:46 +0000, Marc Van Dyck said:

> Stephen Hoffman expressed precisely :
>> And one or two more, if it's not already obvious...   If this code is 
>> used outside of an isolated, private IP network and potentially even 
>> within such, expect to be updating that code to add support for IPv6 
>> addressing and/or to add authentication and data security, too.
> 
> It's just management of addresses - a kind of CMDB, if you want. The 
> code itself does not do anything with those addresses.

The code has to store those IPv6 addresses, though?  IPv6 addresses are 
quadruple the size of IPv4 addresses.

And hosts increasingly have more than one IPv4 address, and will have 
an IPv6 address used for link-local and commonly also have one or more 
additional IPv6 addresses used for non-link-local, routed traffic.

Access credentials can be stored in some of these CMDBs, which tends to 
suggest some form of encryption and maybe a few other security details 
that weren't considered particularly relevant in earlier eras and 
earlier environments.

As for CMDB tools...    Open-AudIT, Kuwaiba, maybe LANdb, and some 
other open-source is available here, too.
https://www.open-audit.org
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kuwaiba/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/landb/
etc

Related:
http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping
https://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/
https://alternativeto.net/software/total-network-inventory/
etc


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