Net_IPv6::getAddressType()

Description

RFC 1883, Section 2.3 describes several types of addresses in the IPv6 addresse space. This methods tries to find the type of address for the given IP.

Parameter

• string $ip - the IP address in Hex format, compressed IPs are allowed

Return value

int - the addresstype

The type can be one of this constants:

• NET_IPV6_MULTICAST

• NET_IPV6_UNICAST_PROVIDER

• NET_IPV6_LOCAL_LINK

• NET_IPV6_LOCAL_SITE

• NET_IPV6_UNKNOWN_TYPE

• NET_IPV6_RESERVED_UNICAST_GEOGRAPHIC

• NET_IPV6_RESERVED_IPX

• NET_IPV6_RESERVED

• NET_IPV6_RESERVED_NSAP

• NET_IPV6_UNASSIGNED

Note

This function can be called statically.

Method available since: Release 1.1.0