IPAddress.Parse for IPv6

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Ben - 31 Mar 2004 18:31 GMT

Hi all

I want to parse a multicast address string into an object of type IPAddress

So i use the IPAddress.Parse(string theIPAddress) method

It works fine with 224.5.6.7, pure IPv
It throws an exception, saying that the provided address has an incorrect format, when I pass in the string
("2002:e005:607::1/48"
o
("2002:e005:607::1/48"

Or pretty much anything ive tried already

Thank you for advices

Ben

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mikeb - 31 Mar 2004 20:40 GMT

> Hi all,
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> Or pretty much anything ive tried already.

I believe that you must have the IPv6 protocol installed on the machine
for it to work (this is a Winsock requirement).

Also, IPAddress.Parse (which is built on WSAStringToAddress()) does not
deal with subnet masks, so you need to drop the "/14" from the end of
the address.

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