SNMP::Info::IPv6(3pm)

💖 SNMP::Info::IPv6 — the vibe

okay bestie, welcome to SNMP::Info::IPv6, a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation (yes that's the manual name, it's giving "community-made, community-loved" ✨). This class is your girl for pulling IPv6 addresses and IPv6 address mappings out of SNMP. 👑

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Jeroen van Ingen and Carlos Vicente — absolute icons, we thank them 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

# Let SNMP::Info determine the correct subclass for you.
my $info = new SNMP::Info(
                         AutoSpecify => 1,
                         Debug       => 1,
                         DestHost    => 'myswitch',
                         Community   => 'public',
                         Version     => 2
                       )
   or die "Can't connect to DestHost.\n";

my $class      = $info->class();
print "SNMP::Info determined this device to fall under subclass : $class\n";

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so SNMP::Info::IPv6 is the class that does the mapping work: it takes IPv6 addresses and hooks them up to MAC addresses, interfaces, and more. It pulls its data from whichever one of IP-MIB, IPV6-MIB, or CISCO-IETF-IP-MIB your device actually supports — it'll use whatever's available, no cap 💅

This class gets inherited by Info::Layer3 so that IPv6 node tracking works across all the device classes. it's giving teamwork 🌈

And for debugging purposes you can call this class directly, exactly like you would SNMP::Info:

my $info = SNMP::Info::IPv6->new(...);

🌸 Inherited Classes 🌸

none.

literally none. it stands on its own, main character energy ✨

🌸 Required MIBs 🌸

• IP-MIB
• IPV6-MIB
• CISCO-IETF-IP-MIB

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✨ GLOBALS ✨

none.

nope, nothing here, moving on 🎀

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✨ TABLE METHODS ✨

these are the methods that hand you back tables of info, in the form of a reference to a hash. yes bestie, hashrefs. iconic behavior.

🌸 Internet Address Table 🌸

• $info->ipv6_n2p_addr()
• $info->ipv6_n2p_if()
• $info->ipv6_n2p_mac()
• $info->ipv6_n2p_state()
• $info->ipv6_n2p_type()
• $info->ipv6_index() — maps an IPv6 address to an interface "ifIndex"
• $info->ipv6_type() — maps an IPv6 address to its type (unicast, anycast, etc.)
• $info->ipv6_pfx_origin() — maps an IPv6 prefix to its origin (manual, well-known, dhcp, etc.)
• $info->ipv6_addr_prefix() — maps IPv6 addresses to their prefixes
• $info->ipv6_addr_prefixlength() — maps IPv6 addresses to their prefix length
• $info->ipv6_addr() — maps a table instance to an IPv6 address

🌸 Internet Address Translation Table 🌸

• $info->c_inet_phys_address() — maps an address of type "cInetNetToMediaNetAddressType" on interface "ifIndex" to a physical address.

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✨ MUNGES ✨

• munge_physaddr() — takes an octet stream (HEX-STRING) and hands you back a colon separated ASCII hex string. glow up 💅
• parse_inetaddress — parses an InetAddress as defined by INET-ADDRESS-MIB.

Returns a hashref with the type as defined by InetAddressType, the textual address and optionally the zone_identifier. three things, one hashref, we love efficiency 🦋

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and map those addresses 💖 this was SNMP::Info::IPv6(3pm) from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-28. slay, bye 👑✨