bryan wann :: binary fury

I was excited to see that rrdtool 1.4 was finally released (in October), and with it rrdcached support finally in a main release.  After updating rrdtool packages on a couple of my systems I sat out to make things start using the new caching daemon. Cacti was my first to play around with since it [...]

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For lovers of storing IP addresses as integers in MySQL tables, there’s a snag when doing this for IPv6 addresses. A 128-bit number is too big to stuff into a BIGINT type. All Fs integer equivalent is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,455. An unsigned BIGINT tops out at 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.
These are your options:

Store [...]

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