To IPv6 compatible (compatible)

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Description

Converts an IPv4 address into an IPv4-compatible IPv6 address.

How does it work in the search window?

Select Create column in the search window toolbar, then select the To IPv6 (compatible) operation. You need to specify one argument:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
IPv4 to convert ^mandatory	ip

The data type of the values in the new column is ip6.

Example

In the siem.logtrust.web.activity table, we want to transform we want to transform the numbers in the responseLength column into IP addresses, and then into IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses. To do it, click Create column and select the To IPv6 (compatible) operation. The arguments needed are:

Integer to convert - responseLength column

Click Create column and select the To IPv6 (compatible) operation. The arguments needed are:

IPv4 to convert - clientIpAddress column

Click Create column and you will see the following result:

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as... and add the operation syntax to create the new column. These are the valid formats of the To IPv6 (compatible) operation:

compatible(ip)

Example

You can copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the siem.logtrust.web.activity table.

from siem.logtrust.web.activity
select ip4(responseLength) as IP,
compatible(IP) as `IPv6-compatible`