This InetAddressType value, carried in OpenFlow connection notifications, indicates the administrative IP address family (such as IPv4 or IPv6) used by the OpenFlow node associated with this connection entry. Admins need it to correctly interpret the accompanying hwOpenflowRemoteIp and hwOpenflowLocalIp values, since those addresses must be read against the matching address type. For example, this object would report ipv4(1) for a connection where the SDN controller is reached over an IPv4 management network.