unable to support IPv6 address type distinction such as global, link-local and anycast in openconfig-if-ip.yang file

[sunseawq]

The addresses defintiion in openconfig-if-ip.yang is as follows: " container addresses { description "Enclosing container for address list";

    list address {
      key "ip";
      description
       "The list of configured IPv6 addresses on the interface.";

      leaf ip {
        type leafref {
          path "../config/ip";
        }
        description "References the configured IP address";
      }

" I am wondering how to distinguish different IPv6 address types such as global, link-local, anycast, in addition, how to distinguish different address generation algorithms such as EUI-64, CGA, null, etc.

[robshakir]

Please can you explain the use case for this? There can be entries for auto-learned addresses in this list - but it's not necessarily clear to me why we need to have a type or the algorithm that was used to come up with them.

Are there operational reasons for having such state available?

Thanks, r.

[sunseawq]

auto-learned addresses are operational data, I am wondering how to distinguish auto-learned addresses from static addresses, how do I get only operational data such as auto-learned addresses ? It looks that ip under addressed list only point to address under config, my impression, we can not get auto-learned addresses using such state or config construct.

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